…included the following commodities: Cotton – Upland cotton production in California is forecast at 260 thousand bales, up 4 percent from the November forecast and up 58 percent from last…
USDA: No Cotton Storage Deficit
…area exists if the production of cotton exceeds the combined approved inside storage capacity of warehouses that have entered into a cotton storage agreement with CCC, less carry-in stocks for…
Agri View: Cotton Exports Increasing
Everett Griner talks about the cotton exports increasing in today’s Agri View. Cotton Exports Increasing Cotton growers didn’t have a lot of optimism when they started this year. Prices were…
Farm Income Drops 17 Percent in 2016
…2011. Row crop receipts are forecast unchanged as stronger revenues for soybeans and cotton offset lower prices for corn and vegetables. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting news service….
November 2016 Farm Income Forecast
…increase by at least 10 percent above 2015 estimates, including cotton, up $0.9 billion (17.5 percent). Likewise, while animal and animal product receipts are forecast overwhelmingly down in 2016, turkey…
Adoption of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa, Canola, and Sugarbeets in the United States
by Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, Seth Wechsler, and Daniel Milkove, USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Genetically engineered (GE) varieties of corn, soybeans, and cotton with herbicide-tolerant and/or insect-resistant traits…
Changes to Improve the Prevented Planting Program
…corn, cotton, grain sorghum, rice, soybeans and wheat for 2017 as part of an effort to ensure that prevented planting factors most accurately reflect the pre-planting input costs of producers….
Cotton Harvesting Behind the “Normal” Pace
The cotton harvest is continuing to be significantly behind the five year average and the pace of last year at this time. Gary Crawford has the story. behind the normal…
EPA Approves Some Dicamba-Based Herbicides
Monsanto’s new dicamba-based weed killers were approved for use this week by the Environmental Protection Agency. The weed killers are designed for use on next generation biotech soybean and cotton…
USDA WASDE Report At a Glance
…value (STRV) because of earlier-than-forecast harvesting taking place in September, consequently increasing the 2015/16 beet sugar production total by that same amount. Cotton: This month’s 2016/17 U.S. cotton estimates include…
Big Increases for Corn, Cotton and Rice
…expected to total 378 thousand tons, up 43 percent from last year. Cotton – Upland cotton harvested acreage is at 65 thousand, which is up 41 percent from 2015. Yield…
Agri View: Cotton Picking
Everett Griner talks about cotton picking, imports and exports in today’s Agri View. Cotton Picking Well, cotton picking has begun but pickings will be kind of slim in some places…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…of course food products. Here is a sample of USDA’s work: Frozen orange juice concentrate Turf used on many NFL and other sports fields across the country “Permanent press” cotton…
CCGGA Opposes Air Resources Board Freight Facility Survey for 2017
…has been an extreme concern of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations (CCGGA) as the loose term of freight facility and warehouse/distribution center could include cotton ginning operations among…