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(NEWSWISE) — A peer-reviewed U.S. cotton science journal has named a Texas Tech University researcher its new editor-in-chief.

(AgWeb) USDA's Cotton Crop Progress Report for the week ended May 4 shows planting picking up but most states still behind the five-year average.

(Cotton Grower) Using In 2000, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) said Texas cotton growers produced 3.94 million bales of cotton on 6.4 million acres.

(Cotton Farming) An increase in wheat acres across cotton country means some farmers could be double-cropping cotton with wheat for the first time.

(Delta Farm Press) In his 15 years of farming, Arbyrd, Mo., cotton producer Lonnie Gibson hasn’t seen anything like it – great prices for cotton, corn and soybeans all occurring at the same time. But just as unexpected has been the startling rise in input costs over the last few years, which has forced him to rethink the way he does business.

(Farm Progress) Two dozen Republican senators have jumped into the fray surrounding ethanol, writing to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson requesting the waiving of the Renewable Fuels Standard.

(Bloomberg) -- Australia's cotton output will almost triple next year as farmers expand their fields, which have received beneficial rains, the U.S. Agriculture Department said.

(Business Times) BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union's trade chief, Peter Mandelson, said Tuesday he remains hopeful that a breakthrough in world trade talks is still possible in the coming weeks.

(Economic Times) NEW DELHI - President George Bush may be pointing fingers at the appetites of the rising Indian middle class, but selling food to the rest of the world is certainly putting dinner on the tables of a large number of Americans, at a time when the US economy is slowing.

(fiber2fashion) Cotton Incorporated’s COTTON. FROM BLUE TO GREEN. denim recycling program joins forces with GUESS by Marciano to develop a nationwide denim drive to aid communities in need.

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

(Farm Progress) The Federal Trade Commission on Monday issued a complaint charging that Agrium, Inc.'s proposed $2.65 billion acquisition of UAP Holding Corporation would be anticompetitive and in violation of federal antitrust laws.

(Delta Farm Press) Several Mid-South producers and researchers are hoping to reduce nitrogen costs on corn and increase harvest efficiency in cotton this coming season with variable-rate applications based on on-the-go sensing technology.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union farm ministers are likely to debate by mid-July whether to allow imports of a genetically modified strain of cotton to be used as a food ingredient and in animal feed, a document showed on Tuesday.

(Cotton Grower) Wherever I go, the issue of sustainability seems to follow me.

(Cotton Farming) The National Cotton Council is working to ensure that USDA’s Cotton Production and Processing Research Unit in Lubbock is fully funded in 2009.

(Cotton Grower) According to the National Cottonseed Products Assn. (NCPA) in Memphis, after Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793, cottonseed was not only considered waste, but a problem.

(Southwest Farm Press) About the only thing farmers can depend on as they prepare for the 2008 cropping season is volatility.