Thursday Cotton eNews

Recognizing that herbicide resistance is a growing threat to efficient cotton production, the National Cotton Council continues to fine-tune its educational effort to help its producer members manage this problem. That includes a page on the NCC's website at http://www.cotton.org/tech/pest/weed-resistance.cfm that contains links to information that can assist producers in making informed decisions and identifying the appropriate management strategies. The NCC will update that page as needed to ensure its members have the best information available as they develop their weed management strategies -- realizing that weed management is not a "one shoe fits all" plan and that one producer may use different weed management strategies for different fields.

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(AgWeb) USDA's Crop Progress Report shows that for the week ended May 19, Kansas, Tennessee and Oklahoma have planted the least so far out of the 15 states surveyed.

(Farm Press) Cotton spinners are chasing cotton between a tight trading range of 82 cents to 88 cents, according to cotton analyst O.A. Cleveland, speaking at the Ag Market Network’s May conference call.

(Farm Press) U.S. cotton has the reputation as the cleanest lint in the world.

(Farm Press) Mother Nature has not been cooperating this spring (geez mom!).

(AgriPulse) WASHINGTON - The Senate will continue its march forward Thursday on debating amendments to a five-year farm bill (S.954) after rejecting an attempt Wednesday to end the U.S. sugar program and one to convert the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into a state block grant program.

(AgriPulse) WASHINGTON - USDA is seeking applications for a two-year term to serve on the government’s Advisory Committee on Minority Farmers.

WASHINGTON (DTN) -- The Agriculture Workforce Coalition, the United Farm Workers, the American Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers have endorsed the comprehensive immigration reform bill that the Senate Judiciary Committee approved late Tuesday.

(Bloomberg) U.S. bankers and insurers are trying to use trade deals, which can trump existing legislation, to weaken parts of the Dodd-Frank Act designed to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis.

(Reuters) - Major trade legislation appears increasingly likely to clear Congress this year despite an intensely partisan atmosphere made worse by scandals plaguing President Barack Obama's administration.

(AgriPulse) WASHINGTON - The European Union finally got its day in court yesterday - or maybe just its day at the CropLife America Annual Policy Meeting, where Irish diplomat, scientist and farmer John Dardis defended the EU for its stringent biotechnology and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards.

(Avalanche-Journal) LUBBOCK -- Like cotton, Apurba Barman is native to India. But Barman and cotton now call the South Plains home.