Monday 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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(Precision Pays) The National Cotton Council (NCC) is pleased with the farm bills out of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees this week that make some pretty significant changes in the cotton program to hopefully provide final resolution of the longstanding Brazil WTO case.

(Farm Progress) USDA's Farm Service Agency reminds farmers and ranchers that ACRE deadline is June 3; DCP deadline is August 2.

(Farm Press) Significant rainfall in the mid-to-upper coastal region of Texas has greatly benefited corn and sorghum crops in recent days but cotton continues to fall behind and now faces increased pest pressure, especially along the Upper Coast.

(Clarion-Ledger) Planting of Mississippi row crops has fallen behind schedule following a spate of wet weather, according to industry experts and government officials.

(AgriPulse) Topping this week's action, debate on the Senate version of the farm bill (S.954) is set to begin today on the floor with stakeholders closely watching the anticipated battles over nutrition funding, dairy policy, and crop insurance.

(AgriPulse) The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee's amended farm bill (S. 954) would reduce direct spending by $17.8 billion and increase revenues by $54 million over a 10-year period, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said in a report Friday.

(DTN Progressive Farmer) The House Agriculture Committee will face floor fights on a number of issues from both parties when the farm bill is taken up, but should be able to hold together its version of the bill for eventual negotiations with the Senate later this summer, ranking member Collin Peterson said Friday.

(AgWeb) Movement in both the House and Senate on revising U.S. immigration law belies a long-running rift between business and labor that could derail the bill.

(Bloomberg) U.S. House and Senate agriculture committee proposals for a new farm law represent a "good faith" effort by lawmakers to resolve a trade dispute over cotton with Brazil, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said.

(Futures) Futures were higher in range trading. The new crop months were firmer on the informal planted area estimates and forecasts for some rain in production areas this week to keep planting slow.

(Fibre2Fashion) India's textile exports for the current fiscal year 2013-14 are likely to grow by 15 percent over last year, Minister of State for Textiles Panabaaka Lakshmi has said.

(DTN Progressive Farmer) Farmers have been moving toward storing fertilizer on their farms to ensure product is available to them when they want it and to take advantage of price breaks during certain times of the year.

(Farm Press) With the increase in some commodity prices, the introduction of new diseases, and old ones getting worse, now more than ever Southern farmers see the benefits of what a well-timed fungicide can do to protect their crops and secure higher yields

(AgFax) A few people who were either very brave or very lucky were able to get corn planted about the usually time this year.

(Farm Press) The Virginia Tech Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center will hold an early-summer row crops tour during the morning of Thursday, June 6, 2013.

(Farm Press) Rod Pinkston, a former U.S. Army Master Sergeant and war veteran, may well be one of the world's best and most intuitive wild hog hunters in the world.