Beltwide Cotton Conferences
January 4-7, 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana

Cotton Economics and Marketing Conference

Cost of Production in the U.S. and Other Countries
Rafiq M. Chaudhry

No-Till Cotton Yield Response to a Wheat Cover Crop: The Yalobusha County Experience, 2000-2004
Steve Cummings

Effects of Chinese Currency Appreciation in the World Cotton Market
Suwen Pan, Samarendu Mohanty, Don Ethridge, Mohamadou Fadiga

Cotton Yield Intelligent Prediction Research
XiaoWen Wei

Farm Profits from Observed Yields of Bt and Non-Bt Cotton, with and without Spray Application, in the Mississippi Delta
Swagata "Ban" Banerjee, Steven W. Martin

The Economics of Crop Termination and Use of Field Cleaners
Raghu Kulkarni, Mark Kelley, Randall K. Boman, Alan Brashears, Eric Hequet, Eduardo Segarra

Precision Agricultural Practices for Optimal Use of Phosphorous
Raghu Kulkarni, Margarita Velandia, Roderick Rejesus, Eduardo Segarra, Kevin Bronson

My Experience With The Economics of Skip-Row
Keith Morton

Status of Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption by Louisiana Cotton Farmers
Kenneth W. Paxton, Huizhen Niu, Deepti R. Chikkam

Trends in Retail Cotton Use in the U.S. Market
Kim Kitchings, Kalyani Deshpande, Melissa Bastos

Profitability of Cotton Production in the Texas High Plains from 1996 to 2003
Ginger Elaine Sides, Alyssa Irlbeck, Phillip Johnson, Darcie Schmidt

Is West Africa Competitive with the U.S. on the World Cotton Market?
Gerald L. Estur

An Economic Evaluation of Tillage Systems for Cotton Production in Texas
J. L. Johnson, J.R. Robinson, W.J. Thompson, L.L. Falconer, M.W. Polk

Influence of E-commerce on Cotton Price Discovery
Gerald Plato, Leslie A. Meyer

Measuring the U.S. Cotton Content of Textile and Apparel Product Imports
Leslie A. Meyer

Analysis of Global Trends in Apparent Cotton Consumption
Gary A. Raines, Mark A. Messura

Economic Evaluation of Integrated Cropping System with Cotton
Rebekka Martin, Vernon Lansford, Eduardo Segarra

Testing Appropriate On-Farm Trial Designs and Statistical Methods for Cotton Precision Farming
Terry Griffin, Glenn Fitzgerald, Dayton Lambert, J. Lowenberg-DeBoer, Edward M. Barnes, Robert Roth

Economic Effect of Late Irrigation on Mid-South Cotton
Robert Hogan

Influence of Winter Cover Crop, Nitrogen, Lime, and Tillage on Cotton Net Revenues
Rebecca L. Cochran, James A. Larson, Roland K. Roberts, Donald D. Tyler

Efficacy and Economic Analysis of Nematode Control Strategies In Georgia Cotton
W. Don Shurley, Robert C. Kemerait

Impacts of Bt Cotton on Insecticide Use: A Beltwide Analysis
George B. Frisvold

Current Cost/Benefit Assessment of Boll Weevil Eradication Programs in Texas
David F. Barham, John R. C. Robinson

Structural Changes Affecting the World Cotton Market
Carol Skelly

Anticipated Benefits from Flex Cotton: Results of a Beltwide Survey
Michele C. Marra, Dan Phaneuf, Julian Alston