Wednesday 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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(AgWeb) Last week we took a look at diagnosing soil compaction and this week we'll consider some principles to determine what to do if you did diagnose a problem.

(Farm Progress) A U.S. Geological Survey report released Monday finds that from 1900 to 2008, U.S. aquifers are being depleted by more than twice the volume of water found in Lake Eerie alone.

(Farm Press) Portions of Talladega County, Ala., remained under water Monday following heavy rainfall that began Friday night.

(Farm Progress) Discussion continued on the Senate floor Tuesday as a sparse crowd on the floor addressed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, a conservation amendment for Indian tribes and the sugar program.

(DTN Progressive Farmer) U.S. senators have filed a broad array of amendments meant to make changes to the farm bill, but Sen. Charles Grassley, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, doesn't think the bill will change much before final passage sometime in early June.

(Fibre2Fashion) The South American country of Peru has come up with six programs to improve the productivity of cotton in the country, and thereby to promote Peru's cotton exports, said Minister of Agriculture, Milton von Hesse.

(AgFax) Cotton futures traded higher Wednesday after posting back-to-back closing losses and finishing in the red 16 of the last 18 sessions.

(Fibre2Fashion) The spate of accidents in the readymade garment (RMG) factories of Bangladesh have raised hopes for Pakistan's garment manufacturing sector, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) South Zone chairman Shaikh Shafiq Rafiq has said, according to a Tribune report.

(Fibre2Fashion) At the initiative of Dr. A. Sakthivel, Chairman-AEPC, an Inter-Ministerial Workshop was organized under the Chairmanship of Shri Ajit Seth, IAS, Cabinet Secretary, Govt. of India.

(Farm Press) The pace of farmland price appreciation across the Southeast and Mid-South. moderated in the first quarter, according to the latest Farmland Market Survey released by Farmland Investor Letter.

(Farm Press) The increases in crop and livestock prices have generated significant profits for many farmers, which some are using to buy additional land.

(DTN Progressive Farmer) More than half the states allow you keep your estate intact forever -- as in 500 or 1,000 years or more. But other methods may achieve the same goal without handcuffing your heirs.

(AgFax) On May 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in the case of Monsanto v. Bowman (U.S., No. 11-796) that while patent owners cannot control certain uses of seeds that had been sold with their permission such as for resale, food or animal feed, they can prevent farmers from planting them because the new harvest reproduces their traits.

(Cotton 24/7) In global supply and demand market, some factors don't matter when it comes to price.

(Farm Press) Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group reports diverse weather conditions across the Northern Hemisphere are bringing significant uncertainty to the 2013 second quarter fertilizer market.