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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(Cotton 24/7) The National Cotton Council released a statement expressing gratitude to the Senate Ag Panel for their Farm Bill creation efforts.

(Farm Press) Farmers once again struggled to get out into the fields last week due to persistent wet conditions.

(AgFax) "There will be some chopping done if these guys aren't careful," says Paul Pilsner, Coastal Ag Consulting, East Bernard, Texas, a theme growers hope they don't see as welcomed rains also bring worrisome weeds to fields in southern and central Texas growing areas.

(Farm Press) Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack reminds farmers and ranchers that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up beginning May 20 and ending on June 14.

(AgriPulse) The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee approved today, on a 15-5 vote, a five-year farm bill after senators offered several amendments, but did not make any major changes to its draft bill.

(Farm Progress) The Senate Agriculture Committee Tuesday approved a 2013 Farm Bill with relatively few changes from the chairwoman's mark, first released last week.

(AgriPulse) The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee began its markup of the 2013 farm bill this morning with senators offering amendments, including one that sought to repeal mandatory country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for livestock and poultry.

(Farm Progress) USDA is working with state investigators to monitor open data for SNAP fraud.

(Fibre2Fashion) Cotton growers of Cameroon have sold 221,000 tons of cotton in the market during the crop season 2012-13, according to Cameroon National Confederation of Cotton Producers (CNPCC).

(AgFax) U.S. producer prices declined further in April and New York manufacturing activity slipped into contraction.

(AgWeb) Cotton futures rose the most in a week amid declining output in the U.S., the world's biggest exporter.

(AgFax) Yara North America Inc., the world's largest Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) producer, today announced the opening of a new storage terminal in Chesapeake, Va. 

(Farm Progress) When Monsanto hosted Media Days two years ago, the crop biotechnology giant discussed the product pipeline in great detail.

(Farm Press) Research conducted at the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Texas Techs' Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH) shows that low-grade cotton is highly effective at absorbing crude oil spills.

(Cotton 24/7) USDA released its Supply Demand report, impacting the cotton market - and for good reason.

(Farm Press) It's difficult to think too much about drought, water-use efficiency, and other such things when the ground underneath your feet is so wet you can't get your planter into the field.