The Runnels County grower has replanted cotton not once, but twice on some acres because of nearly 20 inches of rain this year about the normal rainfall for an entire year. Cotton producers will likely take the hardest hit because they ve run out of time to replant, he said. Agricultural producers in counties that President Bush has already declared a disaster none so far in the San Angelo area are eligible to apply for aid for crop losses. Last year, drought and wildfires drove prices up...

France said in February it would sell its majority stake in Dagris, one of the world's top cotton producers, to a consortium including Sofiproteol, the financial arm of French oilseed growers' group FOP, and investment firm IDI. Unions and staff at Dagris have vigorously opposed the sale, saying it would betray decades of work developing commercial agriculture in Africa and building mutual confidence with poor peasant farmers who grow cotton for its gins in Africa. Help us justify the...

Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial California's fruit, nut and vegetable industry -- aided by Bay Area food and environmental activists -- got its first big bite out of Depression-era federal farm programs, long the multibillion-dollar bastion of commodity barons from the South and Midwest, in a deal reached Tuesday. Georgia (default) Verdana Times New Roman Arial California's fruit, nut and vegetable industry -- aided by Bay Area food and environmental activists -- got its...

DesMoinesRegister.com Home::Opinion. But several developments make this farm bill the right time to craft more rational farm policy: - Relatively high crop prices, driven by demand for corn to make ethanol, mean fewer farmers qualify for payments under current formulas. Southern rice and cotton growers have fought back payment limitations for years, contending their large-scale operations would be unfairly penalized. American Farmland Trust (Dedicated to stopping the loss of productive...

TRADE: WTO Offers New Proposal to Break Deadlock By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The World Trade Organisation (WTO) proposed a new plan Tuesday to unlock global trade talks that have stalled over farm subsidies in rich countries and reluctance by poor nations to further open their markets for Western goods and services without reciprocation from industrialised nations. TRADE: WTO Offers New Proposal to Break Deadlock By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Jul 17 (IPS) - The World Trade...

As skies cleared in mid-July, growers began to play catch up with fleahoppers in cotton, grasshoppers in corn and heavy weed pressure in all row crops. Persistent rains for more than three weeks kept Texas Blacklands farmers out of cotton, corn and grain sorghum fields and delayed wheat harvest far beyond normal cutting dates. When we got some open days cotton farmers concentrated on applying plant growth regulators. Moore says some farmers have applied 30 to 40 ounces of Pix already and...

By Faizan Bangash LAHORE: Mealy bug, a highly pesticide-resistant insect, is threatening the government's cotton production target for the current year as it has attacked the largest cotton belt of the country. Reports of mealy bug (also written as mili bug) have been received from the core areas of cotton production, which form the largest cotton belt of the country comprising 11 districts of Punjab Rahim Yar Khan, Bahawalpur, Vehari, Bahawalnagar, Lodhran, Muzaffargarh, Khanewal, Multan,...

By Field Maloney Posted Friday, March 17, 2006, at 1:34 PM ET A scene from Whole Foods groceryIt's hard to find fault with Whole Foods, the haute-crunchy supermarket chain that has made a fortune by transforming grocery shopping into a bright and shiny, progressive experience. By Field Maloney Posted Friday, March 17, 2006, at 1:34 PM ET A scene from Whole Foods groceryIt's hard to find fault with Whole Foods, the haute-crunchy supermarket chain that has made a fortune by transforming...

Most important is the discovery that the two firms have discovered different sets of genes to give beneficial characteristics to crops such as corn, soybeans, cotton and canola. LOUIS (AP) - A new research partnership is letting two of the world's biggest biotechnology companies peer into each other's private vault of genetic code. Monsanto co. and Germany-based BASF AG announced the partnership earlier this spring, billing it as a unique venture that would help the companies speed...