Tuesday Cotton eNews

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(Farm Press) Though they’re more than a dozen time zones apart, what happens with Texas’ ongoing drought and what China does in terms of rebuilding its cotton reserves will be key influences on the cotton market in the months ahead, says O.A. Cleveland, Jr.

(Bloomberg News) The U.S. government probably will lower its estimate of the recently-harvested cotton crop for a fourth straight month after drought hurt production in Texas, a Bloomberg News survey of eight analysts showed.

(Farm Progress) Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples reports the Texas Department of Agriculture has been granted approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to issue a Section 18 exemption for flutriafol (Topguard) for cotton root rot in Texas.

(Washington Post) Despite rather dire forecasts, this weird winter weather pattern has brought beneficial rains to parts of Texas, which has been suffering from one of its worst droughts on record.

(Farm Progress) -- The following information was provided by Wade Moder (IPM Institute of North America), via www.UTCrops.com.

(Reuters) - Australia's projections for a bumper cotton crop remain on track despite a week-long deluge in major growing regions that forced thousands of residents from their homes and left rivers dangerously swollen.

(Reuters) - The United States remained the primary backer of biotech crop technology in 2011, but adoption spread internationally as the total global planted area of genetically modified seeds grew 8 percent from a year ago, according to a report issued Tuesday.

(Farm Progress) There's a slight change to the annual University of Tennessee Cotton Focus. This year it will be held in conjunction with the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show in Memphis, Tenn.

(DTN) It's been four years since Covey Neatherlin watched a pipeline company cut a mile-long, 60-foot-wide swath through his 200-acre farm to bury a 42-inch-diameter natural gas pipeline 4 feet underground.

(Farm Press) Glyphosate-resistant horseweed has dominated our thinking and driven many of our winter weed burndown decisions over the past several years.

(Montgomery Advertiser) PRATTVILLE -- A group of Autauga County residents are working to preserve the future of a big chunk of Prattville's past.