Broadcast Newsline: October 10, 2008
Based on interpretation of the language in the Research Title of the 2008 Farm Bill, land grant universities may have to compete for research funding.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 8, 2008
The most important step in nematode management is proper diagnosis and quantification of soil populations.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 3, 2008
This week Congress passed a bill to suspend the 10-acre rule for one-year.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 1, 2008
The use of gin waste as a component in erosion control products, building products, composites and laminates represents an opportunity to dramatically increase the value of cotton gin waste.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 26, 2008
Broadcast Newsline: September 26, 2008
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 24, 2008
14.9 million acres of U.S. Cotton are post boll weevil eradication and 1.45 million acres are currently under eradication.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 19, 2008
USDA has published the September cotton crop report.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 17, 2008
The 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences will be held January fifth through the eighth at Marriott Rivercenter and Riverwalk Hotel and Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 12, 2008
The USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation approved the 2008 specifications for Cotton Bale Packaging Materials.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 10, 2008
Broadcast Newsline: September 10, 2008
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 5, 2008
A National Cotton Council leadership team visited China this year.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 3, 2008
Earlier this summer we completed the compliance phase of the WTO Brazil-U.S. Cotton Case.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 29, 2008
The pink boll worm program began in the El Paso, Trans Pecos zone of West Texas.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 27, 2008
In 1994 Texas started its boll weevil eradication program in a few zones and has been adding zones since that time.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 22, 2008
Memphis-based EWR, Inc. in cooperation with the flow committee of the National Cotton Council is introducing an enhancement of its electronic receipt process with the aim of promoting a more streamlined, accurate and cost effective process for establishing bale shipping order load dates.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 20, 2008
After finding resistant marestail in his fields, Stewart Weaver, Cotton producer in Edmonson, Arkansas says he had to revert back to some old practices.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 15, 2008
There are many factors that continue to affect the cotton market.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 13, 2008
In its August crop report, USDA estimated a 2008- 2009 U.S. crop of 13.8 million bales.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 8, 2008
EPA announced it is taking action to revoke food tolerance for residues of carbofuran.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 6, 2008
Cotton incorporated’s agricultural research division facilitates progress in the profitability of cotton production.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 1, 2008
The 2008 Farm Bill includes several new disaster programs.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 30, 2008
The Doha negotiations of the World Trade Organization collapsed this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 25, 2008
Trade Ministers are in Geneva this week in an effort to reach an agreement in the ongoing DOHA round of negotiations.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 23, 2008
Update on the Boll Weevil Eradication Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 18, 2008
Cotton Incorporated is asking cotton producers across the Cotton Belt for assistance and participation in an anonymous online Natural Resource Survey.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 16, 2008
The United States’ government farm programs benefiting America’s cotton farmers have attracted considerable attention and criticism in recent years.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 11, 2008
America’s farmers will receive up to $1.5 billion in 2008 advance direct payments.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July, 9, 2008
In 1982, over five thousand cotton gins were in operation in the U.S.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 2, 2008
The Pink Bollworm Program in the United States now encompasses Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 27, 2008
Secretary of Agriculture, Ed Schafer, announced this week that the signup would begin for the 2008 Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 25, 2008
The Producer Information Exchange Program kicks off its 20th year this week with cotton producers from the Mid-South traveling to Arizona and California.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 20, 2008
This week the President vetoed the completed version of the 2008 Farm Bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 11, 2008
Crop rotation was not a common practice for Steve Stevens, an Arkansas producer.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 6, 2008
The National Cotton Council will be holding forty-five educational meetings to review key provisions of the New Food, conservation and Energy Act of 2008.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 4, 2008
This week the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization released their decision regarding the Compliance Case filed against the United States by Brazil.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 30, 2008
In the export market there has been a container and a vessel space crisis that has affected the export of raw cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 28, 2008
There were many obstacles for farmers in 2007. One of the biggest challenges in 2007 was moisture.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 23, 2008
Within hours of the President vetoing the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 the House and Senate overrode it.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 21, 2008
With the John Deere on-board module building system removal of the wrap on the round modules may require modifications at the gin.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 16, 2008
Congress passed the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 by a strong majority.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 14, 2008
One of the most exciting things to happen in cotton harvesting and handling is the new on-board module building system.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 9, 2008
The House and Senate Conferees have concluded work on the 2008 farm bill. Congress expects to vote on the bill next week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 7, 2008
After cotton has been harvested it is usually formed into a module and covered with a tarp until it can be transported to the gin.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 2, 2008
The farm bill is moving closer to completion but today is the deadline for another extension.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 30, 3008
Last Friday the principal negotiators of the farm bill reached a compromise on the funding for the bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 25, 2008
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission held a forum this week to discuss agricultural futures markets.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 23, 2008
Danny Keiser, Executive Director for the Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Program gives an update
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 18, 2008
The House and Senate unanimously consented to another short term extension of the farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 16, 2008
In a largely party-line vote, the House amended its rules to postpone consideration of a free-trade agreement with Colombia.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 11, 2008
Under the Bush Administration’s proposed fiscal year 2009 budget, the USDA Cotton Ginning Laboratory in Lubbock, Texas is slated for closure.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 9, 2008
The e -Xtension website is a national initiative that every land grant university in the country has signed on to.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 4, 2008
The Cotton Ginners School was started 22 years ago to educate gin employees about basic equipment operation, maintenance and safety.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 2, 2008
USDA released their 2008 Prospective Plantings Report this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 28, 2008
Sign-up for the Conservation Security Program has been announced.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 26, 2008
As of March 25 the Commodity Credit Corporation has implemented new software that denies storage credits for yard-stored upland cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 19, 2008
Congress passed another one month extension of current farm legislation effective through April 18 to allow more time to develop consensus on new legislation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 14, 2008
Congress was hoping to have an agreement on new farm bill legislation before the deadline this weekend.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 12, 2008
The National Cotton Council is coordinating four advanced training workshops to increase cotton producers’ and consultants’ awareness of best management practices.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 7, 2008
WTO negotiations may overshadow the U.S. cotton industry’s two-year effort on delivering sound policy in new farm legislation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 5, 2008
The current cotton surplus is almost 9 million bales which is the second largest in the last 20 years.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 29, 2008
With Congress back in session this week the farm bill conference negotiations are continuing.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 27, 2008
With the recent crop shifts across the cotton belt, university researchers are concerned two different crops with the same B.t. technology could affect insect populations.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 22, 2008
Agriculture committee members from the House and Senate spent the past week negotiating a budget number for the farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 20, 2008
The National Cotton Council has serious reservations regarding the Peterson-Goodlatte farm bill package announced by House Agricultural Committee Chairman Collin Peterson.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 15, 2008
2007 was a tough year. Cotton acreage had a 14 percent decrease and weather conditions for most of the cotton belt were extreme.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 13, 2008
The National Cotton Council has completed their annual survey to determine how many acres producers will be planting to cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 8, 2008
2007 was an extreme year for plant bugs in the Mid-South.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 6, 2008
USDA has announced that eligible farmers who suffered crop losses that occurred prior to December 31, 2007 can now apply to receive disaster payments.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 1, 2008
Since 1979, entomologists have been looking at how insect damage affects the overall production and cost of a cotton crop.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 30, 2008
With Congress back in session the next task is coming to an agreement on farm bill legislation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 25, 2008
90 percent of the cotton crop is classed.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 23, 2008
In December, the World Trade Organization Compliance Panel made public its decision in the Brazil – U.S. cotton case.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 18, 2008
World cotton production will need to rise in 2008 in order to meet the rising global demand for fiber.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 16, 2008
As the 2007 cotton crop moves from the field to market, U.S. producers are going to rely heavily on export markets.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 4, 2008
The Performance and Standards Task Force is responsible for improving the flow of cotton from field to fabric.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 28, 2007
The World Trade Organization's Compliance Panel made its final ruling on Brazil's case against U.S. cotton subsidies.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 21, 2007
This week Congress approved an omnibus spending package that included a short term extension of all the provisions of the 2002 farm bill.
|
Braodcast Newsline: December 19, 2007
Late last week the Senate finished debated the farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 14, 2007
Cotton Council International works along side the National Cotton Council to promote U.S. cotton in the international markets.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 12, 2007
The Senate resumed debate on the Farm Bill Tuesday.
|
Special Edition Broadcast Newsline: December 7, 2007
The Senate returned to debate on the 2007 farm bill on Friday under an agreement that up to 40 amendments could be considered – 20 from each side of the aisle.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 7, 2007
Right now the sales of U.S. cotton exports are slower than hoped.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 5, 2007
Start watching your mailbox for information on the final program for the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 30, 2007
The Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging committee sanctions experimental and compatibility test programs so companies can test new bale packaging products.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 28, 2007
Advancements in technology is helping cotton researchers speed up the plant breeding process in terms of developing new cotton varieties and putting biotech traits that cotton producers want into varieties faster.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 21, 2007
Friday’s Senate vote to limit the farm bill debate and number of amendments fell five votes short.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 16, 2007
The Senate has finished up its second week of debate on the Farm Bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 14, 2007
Universities used to spend years collecting data on conventional cotton varieties, but since the introduction of biotechnology new varieties are coming to the market so fast that university researchers are only getting to collect one or two years of data before the varieties are released.
|
Broadcast Newslin: November 9, 2007
The USDA’s November Crop Production Report is forecasting a four percent increase over last month’s report with 18.9 million bales for all U.S. cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 7, 2007
Researchers across the cotton belt are working together on a multi-state project re-evaluating thresholds for plant bugs.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 2, 2007
As the list of weeds that are showing resistance to herbicides continues to grow, researchers are looking for better options to control weeds.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 31,2007
Traditionally, in Southeast Missouri 38 inch row spacing is the standard row width for cotton. Dr. Joe Henggeler, Irrigation Specialist for the University of Missouri Delta Center, took on a project this year to look at how different row spacings affect yield.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 26, 2007
The Senate Agricultural Committee passed its version of the 2007 Farm Bill reauthorization this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 24, 2007
Producers and industry members from across the cotton belt attend the Beltwide Cotton Conferences to learn about the latest industry innovations that can help enhance their profitability.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 19,2007
The Doha Round of the WTO talks are still moving forward in Geneva.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 17, 2007
USDA has published the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates for October.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 12, 2007
USDA published the October Crop Production Report today.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 10, 2007
The 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conference is only a couple months away and Bill Robertson, Coordinator for the conferences says this year they are introducing a new workshop as part of the program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 5, 2007
The Senate Finance Committee met late yesterday to mark-up their portion of the 2007 Farm Bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 3, 2007
The Agriculture Transportation Coalition paired with the Chamber of Commerce to assemble a Focus Group to explore the importance of transportation to agribusinesses and supply chains.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 28, 2007
The latest round of WTO talks took place in Geneva last week and cotton is still being singled out.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 26, 2007
With the excessive heat and lack of rainfall in parts of the cotton belt this year, some researchers have intensified their biotechnology work.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 21, 2007
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service or APHIS has been working to streamline the process for requesting and tracking phytosanitary certificates.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 19, 2007
The 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences will be held January eight through the eleventh at the Opryland Resort and hotel in Nashville, Tennessee.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 14, 2007
Cotton that is not well protected from the elements loses quality and value as it waits to be ginned.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 12, 2007
The Extension Service gets frequent calls from land owners who don’t live in the farming communities and are seeking unbiased information about production practices.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 7, 2007
The House passed version of the farm bill contained similar conservation provisions as current law but funding is going to be the biggest hurdle.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 5, 2007
The Cotton Leadership Program, administered by the National Cotton Council’s Member Services department graduated its 24th class.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 31, 2007
Monsanto has several projects in their research pipeline that they hope will provide value to producers.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 29, 2007
The drought is taking its toll on the cotton industry. The hardest impact is being felt in the Southeastern part of the U.S.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 24, 2007
From drought to floods, the weather has taken its toll on the crops this year.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 22, 2007
As commodity shifts occur across the cotton belt there is a shift in insect pressure as well.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 17, 2007
A group of Sunbelt growers had the opportunity to see agricultural production, processing and business operations in North Dakota last week as part of the Multi-Commodity Education Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 15, 2007
The Multi-Commodity Education Program was launched last October when producers from the Midwest and Far West traveled to North Carolina to observe cotton production and processing and other agricultural operations.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 10, 2007
“Orchestrating Your Opportunities” is the theme for the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences set for January eight thru the eleventh at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 8, 2007
With limited acres for producing corn for ethanol, researchers have spent years looking at other resources.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 3, 2007
New mandatory weekly reporting of the warehouse’s cotton flow started in January. All warehouses are required to complete the weekly cotton flow report through an electronic reporting system.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 1, 2007
As energy prices continue to increase, biofuels are moving to the forefront as an alternative source.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 27, 2007
Speaking at the Southern Cotton Ginners Association meeting in Baton Rouge, Dr. Gary Adams, chief economist at the National Cotton Council, said the Council supports the House Agriculture Committee approved farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 25, 2007
With the Farm Bill debate starting on the House floor this week, several commodity organizations have joined forces to protect current farm programs.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 20, 2007
The payment limit package included in the House Agricultural Committees Farm Bill begins with direct attribution.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 18, 2007
The 2007 Farm Bill is being debated in the House Agricultural Committee this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 13, 2007
The National Cotton Council, has been working with USDA-APHIS and Ecuador to eliminate the fumigation of boll weevils in compressed cotton in Ecuadorian ports.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 11, 2007
The Producer Information Exchange Program fosters valuable communication between cotton producers.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 6, 2007
USDA’s crop condition report for the week ending July 1 shows the overall cotton crop across the belt as reasonably good.
|
Broadcast Newslines: June 29, 2007
USDA published the June cotton acreage report this morning - this is the lowest it’s been since 1989.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 27, 2007
Insect pressure has been a constant battle in the Delta this year.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 22, 2007
The House Agricultural Subcommittee for General Farm Commodities and Rick Management this week unanimously adopted a five-year extension of current law as the basis for the commodities title of the 2007 farm legislation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 19, 2007
The House Ag subcommittee on General Commodities and Risk Management today voted unanimously to extend the 2002 farm bill's commodity title rather than make the changes in target prices and loan rates for crops proposed by Agriculture Chairman Peterson.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 15, 2007
As the legislative process continues for the Farm Bill it’s important to have an industry consensus.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 13, 2007
USDA June Supply & Demand Report
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 8, 2007
The 2007 Cotton Leadership Class is headed to Washington D.C. next week to learn about policy development and implementation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 6, 2007
This week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a natural refuge option for all areas where Bollgard II cotton is grown except states and counties where pink bollworm is a significant pest.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 1, 2007
The National Cotton Council’s Cotton Leadership Program seeks to identify potential industry leaders and provide them developmental training so they can represent the industry at the local, regional and state level.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 30, 2007
One of the most popular fabrics around the world has a new performance feature that protects the wearer from wet conditions.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 25, 2007
This week the House Agricultural Subcommittee on conservation, credit, energy and research approved its draft proposals for several farm bill titles that were under their jurisdiction.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 23, 2007
Cotton Incorporated, the research and marketing company for U.S. upland cotton, has created a specially engineered finish to improve the wear of durable press cotton garments.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 18, 2007
Chairman of the House Agricultural Committee, Collin Peterson, held a press conference on Thursday to talk about the reauthorization of the Farm Bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 16, 2007
The National Cotton Council joined several other commodity and livestock groups in sending a letter to the Chairman and Ranking member of the House and Senate Ag Committees as well as the Chairman and Ranking member of the House and Senate Subcommittees on Conservation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 11, 2007
Researchers across the Cotton Belt have been trying to determine the impact plant bug numbers have on cotton yield.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 9, 2007
Endure, is a new textile finish developed to prolong the life and look of cotton products for the home.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 4, 2007
The Arkansas Scheduler program was developed by the University of Arkansas in the early 1980’s to help producers with irrigation timing.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 2, 2007
Determining Weed Resistance
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 27, 2007
The Senate Agricultural Committee held hearings this week focusing on testimony from general farm and commodity-specific organizations, including a focus on farm programs and the commodity title of the farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 25, 2007
When transgenic varieties became available producers had to change the way they managed their weeds and insects.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 20, 2007
On August 31, USDA announced that beginning in January 2007 cotton warehousemen would be mandated to provide weekly reports showing the bales made available for shipment.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 18, 2007
USDA's Farm Service Agency recently issued new notices to county offices detailing cotton transfer procedures and more fully describing anticipated charges upon forfeiture.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 13, 2007
As the U.S. cotton industry is trying to find its place in the world market it needs to meet the competition head on.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 11, 2007
Arid West Texas is known for its low rainfall which makes conserving rainfall critical for cotton production.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 6, 2007
For Mississippi County producer David Wildy, irrigation has become a crucial part of his operation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 4, 2007
USDA's March Prospective Plantings Report.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 30, 2007
In testimony before the House Ag Committee on Wednesday, John Pucheu, Chairman of the National Cotton Council, reaffirmed the Council’s recommendation that new farm legislation be patterned after the basic provisions of the 2002 farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 28, 2007
Senator Grassley introduces amendment for payment limitations again.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 23, 2007
Using renewable fuels to make the cotton industry self-sufficient.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 21, 2007
The Senate budget Committee has passed its version of the fiscal year 2008 Budget Resolution.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 16, 2007
Testing for removing cotton stickiness caused by insects.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 14, 2007
This week the Senate Appropriations Committee will take up the supplemental appropriations bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 9, 2007
The Joint Cotton Industry Bale Packaging Committee approved two new woven polypropylene bags.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 7, 2007
National Cotton Council signs letter urging congress to promptly consider and pass the free trade agreements recently concluded and signed with Colombia and Peru.
|
Broadcast Newsline: March 2, 2007
Beginning in 2007, on a voluntary basis, all approved manufacturers of bale packaging materials and importers of burlap will have to provide a Certificate of Analysis to users of their packaging products when requested.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 28, 2007
Congressional leaders have advised the administration that they intend to add a disaster assistance package to the emergency supplemental appropriations measure providing funds for the war.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 23, 2007
U.S. Cotton Targeted Again by the WTO
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 21, 2007
Secretary of Ag Mike Johanns recently testified before the House Agricultural committee to answer questions about the administrations 2007 farm bill proposal.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 16, 2007
2006 Fiber Quality
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 14, 2007
In order to answer concerns raised by international mills over the fiber quality of U.S. cotton, several U.S. researchers are participating in a new broad initiative.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 9, 2007
The total losses from insect pests in the 2006 cotton crop was at an all time low in the U.S.
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 7, 2007
2007 Cotton Economic Outlook
|
Broadcast Newsline: February 2, 2007
2007 Cotton Planting Intentions
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 31, 2007
The Congressional Budget Office has presented the January budget baseline.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 26 2007
With the 110th Congress now in session, both the democratic and the republican caucuses have selected members for the various committees that operate within the House of Representatives.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 24, 2007
USDA researchers are investigating possible effects outdoor storage and bale coverings may have on fiber and textile quality.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 19, 2007
During the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns told attendees that market access will be key to a successful Doha round.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 17, 2007
A 10-member delegation representing U.S. cotton producers, ginners, merchants and warehousemen participated in the 2006 China Leadership Exchange Program established by the National Cotton Council along with the China Cotton Association.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 5, 2007
Topics being presented during the Precision Cotton Workshop at the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
|
Broadcast Newsline: January 3, 2007
The Cotton Museum is housed inside the historic Memphis Cotton Exchange Building. Calvin Turley believes this was the ideal location to capture the history and culture of the cotton industry.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 20, 2006
Johanns to Address 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 15, 2006
Senate Confirms Keenum for USDA Post.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 13, 2006
When the 110th Congress convenes in January for its first session there will be a lot of work to do.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 8, 2006
The 2007 Planting Intentions survey will be arriving in mailboxes soon.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 6, 2006
Tuesday the Senate support was lacking for the $4.9 billion in agriculture disaster assistance.
|
Broadcast Newsline: December 1, 2006
Anyone attending the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences will have access to a new tool this year.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 29, 2006
Since September 11, 2001 there has been an increased awareness of the vulnerability of the food and agriculture sector to acts of terrorism.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 22, 2006
The Beltwide Cotton Conferences speed the transfer of new technology to U.S. cotton producers and other industry members.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 17, 2006
As China emerges as the largest cotton market in the world, Cotton Council International is working to advance the COTTON USA brand there.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 15, 2006
The National Cotton Council of America and the China Cotton Association signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 10, 2006
USDA’s November crop report was published this week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 8, 2006
The Cotton Foundations newest educational project - The Multi-Commodity Education Program - was launched in October when producers from the Midwest and Far West traveled to North Carolina.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 3, 2006
The U.S. cotton industry sent a ten member delegation to China as part of the China Leadership Exchange Program established by the National Cotton Council along with the China Cotton Association.
|
Broadcast Newsline: November 1, 2006
Today is the first day hotel reservations for the Beltwide Cotton Conferences are open to the general public.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 27, 2006
Perthshire Farms has spent the past five years testing a new cotton picker from Case IH.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 25, 2006
The National Cotton Council is hosting a new online Weed Resistance Learning Module to help cotton producers stay ahead of the game in fighting weed resistance.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 20, 2006
The American Cotton Producers Farm Policy Committee and the National Cotton Council’s Farm Policy Task Force met last week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 18, 2006
USDA released their supply and demand numbers last week.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 13, 2006
Good progress has been made with the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in the last 5 years.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 11, 2006
Case IH has introduced a new machine that can harvest cotton, build a module and unload a module without any other labor involved.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 6, 2006
Now that congress is in recess for the November elections some trade issues that would have primarily affected trade in cotton textile products with Africa and Haiti appear to be in an uncertain stage.
|
Broadcast Newsline: October 4, 2006
As the 2006 season comes to a close, the boll weevil eradication is about 85 percent complete nationwide.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 29, 2006
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced this week that 51 watersheds in 50 states, the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean Area will be eligible for the 2007 Conservation Security Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 27, 2006
In order to get congress to take action on ag disaster assistance before the October recess, democratic members of the House are trying to get two hundred and eighteen signatures on a discharge petition.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 22, 2006
Program topics for 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 20, 2006
Registration starts today for the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conferences which will be held January 9 to the 12 in New Orleans.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 15, 2006
The National Cotton Council joined commodity groups and national farm organizations in a correspondence urging congress to act on emergency disaster assistance legislation that will help producers across the country for losses in 2005 and 2006.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 13, 2006
The USDA last Thursday announced another Step 3 import quota for cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 8, 2006
In 2004, the World Trade Organization ruled that much of the U.S. cotton program was in violation of trade rules and demanded sweeping reform.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 6, 2006
Last week, Secretary of Ag Mike Johanns, announced that USDA would be making the final installment of the 2005 crop counter-cyclical payments for upland cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: September 1, 2006
New provisions for USDA’s Cotton Marketing Assistance Loan program went into effect on Wednesday.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 30, 2006
The USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation has announced amended regulations affecting the marketing assistance loan program for the 2006 and subsequent crops of upland and Extra Long Staple cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 25, 2006
Fifteen-inch row spacing in cotton is a fairly new and not yet widely adopted concept.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 23, 2006
The steering committee for the Beltwide Cotton Conferences have been working on topics and schedules for the 2007 Conferences to be held in New Orleans.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 18, 2006
With the lack of rainfall this year, cotton producers are being forced to turn to heavier irrigation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 16, 2006
USDA has completed its first survey based estimate of the 2006 cotton crop.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 11, 2006
Cotton producers from the southwest region of the cotton belt recently traveled to the midsouth region for the third tour of the 2006 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 9, 2006
Cotton producers use precision agriculture to mange their inputs such as seed, fertilizer, and growth regulators, but most are still using a blanket approach to water management.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 4, 2006
Agriculture In The Classroom is an educational program created in 1981 to promote agricultural literacy among the nation’s students.
|
Broadcast Newsline: August 2, 2006
Some insects can cause cotton producers and entomologists to pull their hair out during the growing season.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 28, 2006
The lack of rain in the cotton belt is starting to take its toll on the crop.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 26, 2006
Earlier this week the ministers from the G-6 countries met for two days to try to narrow the differences in the WTO negotiations.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 21, 2006
Cotton producers from the Southeast traveled to the Far West, visiting operations in Arizona and California as part of the 2006 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 19, 2006
U.S. cotton producers are uniting with other members of the agricultural industry to support current farm legislation and prevent proposed reductions to farm program assistance.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 12, 2006
Ministers have failed to narrow their differences on the "modalities" or template agreements that are needed to compile detailed cuts in World Trade Organization tariffs and agricultural subsidies.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 14, 2006
The 2002 farm bill has been highly effective legislation and is largely responsible for the success of recent U.S. cotton production.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 7, 2006
This is Part 2 of the story that ran Wednesday 7/5/06. The National Cotton Council Performance and Standards Task Force submitted recommendations on USDA’s proposed cotton flow rule.
|
Broadcast Newsline: July 5, 2006
The National Cotton Council Performance and Standards Task Force developed and unanimously adopted a comprehensive report addressing USDA’s proposed cotton flow rule.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 30, 3006
In the June acreage report USDA says that all cotton acreage for 2006 is now estimated at just under fifteen point three million acres.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 28, 2006
The pink bollworm is a very destructive cotton insect pest.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 23, 2006
The National Boll Weevil Eradication program is well on its way toward completion.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 21, 2006
National Cotton Council Vice-Chairman John Pucheu, participated in a series of meetings in Geneva, Switzerland on key trade matters.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 16, 2006
The 2006 Cotton Leadership Class is in Washington D.C. this week learning about policy development and implementation.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 6, 2006
In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, USDA will be releasing information from the Permitted Entity File and from the Section 1614 database.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 9, 2006
The Cotton Research and Promotion Program, which most producers term the check-off program, provides a very integral service to the U.S. cotton industry in that it promotes the off take of cotton both domestically and world wide.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 7, 2006
In the most recent Crop Progress report, USDA reports ninety-three percent of the US cotton crop was planted as of June 4.
|
Broadcast Newsline: June 2, 2006
The current EPA registrations for Bollgard and Bollgard II will expire in September of 2006.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 31, 2006
Federal budget proposals within the U.S. Department of Agriculture are aimed at closing a number of research facilities, including the Southwestern Cotton Ginning Research Laboratory located near Las Cruces, New Mexico.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 26, 2006
The National Cotton Council has scheduled dates and locations for the 2006 Cotton Foundation Producer Information Exchange or P.I.E. Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 24, 2006
The National Cotton Council is making preparation for the 2007 Beltwide Cotton Conference.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 19, 2006
President Bush addressed the Nation this week expressing what he would like to see for immigration reform.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 17, 2006
USDA’s final estimates for the 2005 crop has the total planted area at 14.25 million acres.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 12, 2006
Rickey Bearden a third generation farmer from Plains, Texas had the opportunity to testify before the House Agricultural Committee and share his thoughts about the Farm bill.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 10, 2006
The President’s 2007 budget proposal includes over eight million dollars in cut to the Agricultural Research Services budget. Among those proposed cuts are the ginning research laboratories in Texas and New Mexico.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 5, 2006
The introduction this week of a bi-partisan bill by Senators Jim Talent and Blanche Lincoln to extend the 2002 farm bill would provide U.S. farmers with much-needed support.
|
Broadcast Newsline: May 3, 2006
U.S. Senators Jim Talent and Blanche Lincoln announced Tuesday they have introduced legislation to extend the current farm bill scheduled to expire in 2007.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 28, 2006
The World Trade Organization Doha Round of talks is going to miss the April 30 deadline.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 26, 2006
Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns has extended the deadline for the Conservation Reserve Program.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 21, 2006
Recently some grand statements were made by Wal-mart claiming that conventionally grown cotton is not sustainable and that tremendous amounts of hazardous materials are used on conventionally grown cotton.
|
Broadcast Newsline: April 19, 2006
The President’s 2007 Budg |
