Broadcast Newsline: January 13, 2006

With cotton prices staying flat but production costs increasing, cotton producers are looking for ways to more efficiently produce a crop.

This week’s Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts.  All cuts are Cannon Michael a cotton producer from Los Banos, California.

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With cotton prices staying flat but production costs increasing, cotton producers are looking for ways to more efficiently produce a crop. Cannon Michael, a cotton producer from Los Banos, California, uses a one-pass-tillage system that saves time and money.

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According to Michael, this tillage system saves Bowles Farming Company fifty dollars an acre.  But the time savings is the biggest advantage.

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Michael says they have tried the optimizer tillage system with some of their other crops.

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