PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2000 BELTWIDE COTTON CONFERENCES
	Jan. 4-8, San Antonio, TX Editors C. Paul Dugger & Debbie A. Richter
COTTON ECONOMICS AND MARKETING CONFERENCE TABLE OF CONTENTS

The U.S. and World Cotton Outlook Carol Skelly	255
Price and Marketing Strategies for the Year 2000 Carl G. Anderson	257
The Evolution of Global ELS Cotton Marketing Matthew S. Laughlin	259
Global Demand for Cotton: Evidence from Major Consumer Markets Kimberley S. Kitchings and Mark A. Messura	260
The Export Elasticity of Demand Revisited: Implications of Changing Markets Olga Isengildina, Darren Hudson and Cary W. (Bill) Herndon	265
Francophone West Africa Cotton Update Andrew Levin	269
Technology Transfer of Cotton J. Dloomy	271
Explaining International Cotton Prices: A Structural Model Approach Ioannis K Kaltsas	273
Major World Cotton Producers for 1999/2000 Ronald R. Roberson	275
Economic Comparison of Alternative Cotton Harvesting Systems Jeannie Nelson, Sukant Misra and Alan Brashears	277
Evidence of Defoliation and Harvest Timeliness Effects on Yield, Grade, and Profit: The Case of Cotton in Georgia W. Don Shurley and Craig W. Bednarz	285
Economic Evaluation of Ultra Narrow Row Cotton on a Whole Farm Basis S. Gary Bullen and Blake Brown	287
The Cost of Ultra-Narrow Row Cotton Production in Mississippi: A Commercial-Scale Experiment Ashley Renck, Darren Hudson, Steve Martin and Jeanne Reeves	289
Economic Comparisons of Conservation Tillage Systems Across the Belt, AL, AR, CA, GA, LA, MS, SC, & TX John F. Bradley	290
The Impact of Narrow Skip-Row Cotton on Cost Per Pound Dudley Stephens, D. W. Parvin and F. T. Cooke, Jr.	295
Effect of Decreasing Government Involvement in the U.S. Cotton Industry N. Hishamunda, P. A. Duffy, C. M. Jolly and J. Raymond	298
Adjustments to Cotton’s High Production Cost by Mississippi Producers D. W. Parvin and F. T. Cooke	301
The Impacts of Production Variability on the Mississippi Ginning Industry Shawn Boyd and Darren Hudson	304
A Marketing Strategy for Cotton Producers Based on Mean Reversion in Cotton Futures Prices Emmett Elam	310
Using Moving Averages as a Cotton Pricing Tool J. L. Johnson and B. K. Bennett	313
Using a Cotton Options Strategy to Increase Revenues Olga Isengildina, Darren Hudson, O. A. Cleveland and Cary W. Herndon	315
Evaluation of Consumer Demand for Selected End-Use Markets for Cotton Catherine Viator, Carl G. anderson and Rodolfo Nayga	319
Inter-Sectoral Relationships in the Texas Cotton Industry Blake K. Bennett and Sukant K. Misra	323
Texas-Oklahoma Producer Cotton Market Summary: 1998/99 Kalyan Chakraborty, Kevin Hoelscher, Sukant Misra and Don Ethridge	329
The Economics of Bt Cotton in the Mississippi Delta-A Progress Report Fred T. Cooke, Jr., William P. Scott, Roy D. Meeks and David W. Parvin, Jr.	332
Roundup Ready Versus Conventional Cotton Varieties: Case Studies from the Southern High Plains Region of Texas Kelly White, Diana Beaty Jones and Phillip Johnson	334
Adoption of Bt Cotton: Regional Differences in Producer Costs and Returns George B. Frisvold, Russell Tronstad and Jorgen Mortensen	337
Cost and Return Comparison of Seven Cotton Varieties in Delicias, Chihuahua, Mexico Jose Eduardo Magaña Magaña, Juvencio Gonzalez García, Arturo J. Obando Rodríguez, Alvaro Anchondo Nájera and Sóstenes Delgado García	340
On-Farm Economic Evaluation of Bollgard(R) with Roundup Ready(R) Cotton in the Mississippi Delta Bill O’Neal and Anthony Mills	343
Cost and Return Comparisons of Transgenic Cotton Systems in Arkansas K. J. Bryant, C. T. Allen, F. M. Bourland, K. L. Smith and L. D. Earnest	343
Efficient Bt Refuge Policies Mike Livingston, Gerald Carlson and Paul Fackler	345
The Potential of a Proposed Rainfall Option at Cotton Harvest Steven W. Martin	348
An Economic Analysis of Cotton Crop Rotations in Northeast Louisiana A. Bechtel, K. Guidry, J. Miller and M. Holman	351
Economic Impact of the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in West Tennessee J. A. Larson, B. C. English and O. P. Suarez	353
Input Use, Yields, and Quality of Cotton in the Texas High Plains Octavio A. Ramirez, Megan L. Denning, Dan Krieg, Don Ethridge, Phillip Johnson and Dean Ethridge	355
Organic Cotton: Production Trends in the U.S. and Globally S. Marquardt	360
Adoption of Insect Growth Regulators in Arizona Cotton: Determinants and Economic Implications G. Ken Agnew, George B. Frisvold and Paul Baker	361
Trends in Cotton Yields and Yield Variability in the Texas High Plains: An Irrigated Versus Dryland Comparison David B. Willis and Octavio A. Ramirez	364
The Economics of Precision Agricultural Practices in Cotton Production Man Yu, Eduardo Segarra, Hong Li, Robert J. Lascano, Charles Chilcutt, L. Ted Wilson, Kevin Bronson and Steve Searcy	369
Three Year Economic Summary of Bollgard(R) with Roundup Ready(R) Cotton in Mississippi Anthony Mills	374
How Different Quality Attributes Contribute to the Price of Cotton in Texas and Oklahoma? Kalyan Chakraborty, Don Ethridge and Sukant Misra	374
An Estimated 1999 Texas-Oklahoma Pre-Season Price Schedule Based on Market History Kevin Hoelscher, Kalyan Chakraborty, Sukant Misra and Don Ethridge	377
Historical Regional Shifts in Cotton Planted Acres in the U.S. 1960 - 1999 Joey E. Mehlhorn, Steve Martin and Greta Schuster	379
How Successful Were U.S. Cotton Farms in 1998? Nora L. Brooks, Mir B. Ali and Mitchell J. Morehart	379
Cotton Quality Price Differentials from Textile Mills’ Perspective: An Update Don Ethridge, Shauna Swink and Kalyan Chakraborty	382
Effects of the MFA Phase-Out on the U.S. Cotton & Textile Markets Leslie A. Meyer, Stephen MacDonald, Agapi Somwaru and Xinshen Diao	385
Cotton Quantity, Quality and Value: A Comparison of Hand and Mechanical Harvest Results from a Large Scale South Texas Test Lawrence L. Falconer, John L. Parker and Roy D. Parker	390

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