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(Carolina-Virginia Farmer) Several producers and other leaders in the Carolina-Virginia cotton industry are among those that have been named members and alternate members to a board that will review and make recommendations to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture on Universal Cotton Standards.

(Agriculture Online) Farm bill leaders were meeting behind closed doors again Tuesday afternoon to work out final areas of disagreement.

(The Farmer-Stockman) Support for the expanded renewable fuels standard enacted in last December's energy bill got mixed reviews Tuesday from members of the House Committee of Energy and Commerce's subcommittee on energy and air quality.

(Forbes) WASHINGTON - A veto by President Bush would not be the end of the road for the $285 billion farm bill pending in Congress, nor would it doom an increase in food aid to poor Americans.

(AP) WASHINGTON — The White House told members of Congress on Tuesday that the cost of the five-year farm bill is still too high, saying negotiators are using budget gimmicks to hide the real expense.

(Yarns and Fibers Exchange) Price control on Bt cotton seed prices is likely to hit the cotton growing community in Gujarat.

(Reuters) MUMBAI/NEW DELHI - India is unlikely to soften its stance on agriculture at global trade talks and may even gamble on the negotiations stretching into next year when a new U.S. administration is in place, analysts say.

(Guardian) WASHINGTON - U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab on Tuesday defended the White House's decision to force a vote on a free trade pact with Colombia, even though it provoked a showdown with Congress that crippled a 34-year-old procedure used to win approval of trade deals.

(SeedQuest)  To help growers achieve the maximum value potential for their high-quality Certified FiberMax Cotton™, Bayer CropScience has selected three outstanding U.S. cotton merchants as exclusive partners for the 2008 Certified FiberMax Cotton program.

(Delta Farm Press) Driving along Highway 61 in the north Delta, you can’t help notice the crops are late.

(Delta Farm Press) According to USDA’s May 5 crop progress report, 5 percent of the nation’s soybean crop has been planted, which is behind the five-year average of 14 percent.

(Delta Farm Press) When the flooding along rivers in eastern Arkansas subsides, row crop farmers will likely have something else to worry about in addition to lost planting time and debris cleanup: new weeds, especially herbicide-resistant ones.

(Southeast Farm Press) Fed up with high fertilizer prices, more and more U.S. farmers are looking at poultry litter to feed their crops.