Friday 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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(Farm Press) As the old saying goes, when it rains it pours. No one knows that better right now than farmers.

(Farm Press) Textile executives from eight Chinese mills and two Hong Kong mills will tour the U.S. Cotton Belt June 9-16 to get a close look at U.S. cotton production, processing and marketing and to meet with U.S. exporters. China is U.S. cotton's largest consumer, Hong Kong ranks 18th.

(Farm Progress) Senators kept at it Thursday, addressing four amendments to the 2013 Farm Bill.

(Farm Progress) The Congressional Budget Office Thursday released its cost estimate for the 2013 House Agriculture Committee Farm Bill, finding it would offer approximately $33.3 billion in direct spending reduction over 10 years.

(Cotton 24/7) The nation's head of cotton testing shares strategies to avoid the widespread issue.

(The Times of India) Chandigarh: Extreme hot weather is affecting cotton crop, especially late-sown in both Punjab and Haryana, say farmers and experts.

(AgFax) Cotton futures traded modestly lower in early dealings Friday ahead of a holiday weekend, extending losses after closing lower four consecutive days, basis spot July.

(Farm Press) Dow AgroSciences has announced it has received registration from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its in-plant, three-gene insect protection trait in cotton.

(Farm Press) Derrick Oosterhuis, a distinguished professor in the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and the Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences at the University of Arkansas, was recently presented the Werner L. Nelson award by the Fluid Fertilizer Foundation at its annual meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz.

(DTN Progressive Farmer) Heading into the Memorial Day holiday weekend, I received a phone call talking about planting progress, but providing so much more perspective.

(Farm Press) Waylan Hitchcock's granddaddy H.I. "Peanut" Elton told him things, specific things like how to judge cattle with dead-eye specifics, the accurate land boundaries in the county and how to tell good dirt from bad and what to do with it.

(Farm Press) Members of the Arizona cotton industry and noted industry leaders from around the country gather for the 2013 Arizona Cotton Industry Meeting.

(The Northwest Florida Daily News) Shannon Nixon wiped his brow as he jumped off his tractor one recent afternoon.