Growers in Louisiana planted approximately 325,000 acres of cotton for the 2007 harvest, which comes down to a little less than half of the traditional cotton acreage. VIDALIA Cotton may be king, but after a year in which more corn acreage was planted than since the 1930s, the old commodity monarch may be losing its grip on the kingdom. The market realized it was going to need considerably higher number of corn acres, and the only way to attract a commodity is to raise prices, he said. The...

AHMEDABAD: It is not only rapid industrialisation after the earthquake, but also diversification in crop pattern from traditional crops to cotton that has helped Kutch to become prosperous. This year, cotton sowing has covered more than 65,000 hectares compared to about 58,000 hectares in talukas like Anjar, Abdasa, Mandvi, Mundra, Rapar, Bhuj and also Nakhatrana which, entered the diversification experiment this year only says spokesman of Kutch Cotton Association Sharad H Bhatia. This...

Cotton growers set to gain-Chandigarh-Cities-The Times of India Indiatimesl My Mail l Make TOI your home page l. Cotton growers set to gain-Chandigarh-Cities-The Times of India Indiatimesl My Mail l Make TOI your home page l. Cotton growers set to gain-Chandigarh-Cities-The Times of India Indiatimesl My Mail l Make TOI your home page l. BATHINDA: Despite the mealy mug causing extensive loss to the cotton crop in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan this season, cotton growers of the area will...

It has evoked divergent views, ranging from a forceful advocacy of support prices for key agricultural commodities and subsidies for major inputs to complete liberalisation of prices and reliance upon the market mechanism to achieve efficiency and competitiveness. It has evoked divergent views, ranging from a forceful advocacy of support prices for key agricultural commodities and subsidies for major inputs to complete liberalisation of prices and reliance upon the market mechanism to...

However, spinners appear to be in a bit haste to grab the floating stock at the current prices, which are said to be close to their export parity level after value-addition. Although official figures of arrivals of phutti into the ginneries for the month of September are not released by the Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA), an average daily mill off-take of about 50,000 bales indicates that their buying operations are at peak at the fallen prices. Floor brokers said the...

Burdekin cane farmer gives nod to cotton rotation By BRAD PFEFFER Monday, 10 September 2007 North Queensland farmer Paul Villis has taken part in cotton trials in the region this year, and while it was a tough growing year, he believes the crop has role to play in the future for the region. Burdekin cane farmer gives nod to cotton rotation By BRAD PFEFFER Monday, 10 September 2007 North Queensland farmer Paul Villis has taken part in cotton trials in the region this year, and while it was...

But Morehouse Parish producer Chris Carter said his family, who planted 2,800 acres of corn this year, will continue harvesting its crop through this week. Catahoula Parish had the most acres of grain sorghum with 46,641 acres, while Morehouse Parish led the northeastern part of the state in rice acres at 21,233. Though Louisiana farmers planted their fewest acres of cotton since 1975 at 328,141, northeastern Louisiana producers had 80 percent of those. LSU AgCenter cotton specialist said...

We do today what we did yesterday, because politicians draw their power from distributing benefits, and various interest groups feel entitled to receive them even if they serve no defensible public purpose. Roughly 90 percent of commodity payments go to farmers raising grains and oilseeds (wheat, corn, sorghum, soybeans), cotton and rice; they represent about a fifth of farm cash receipts. If subsidies vanished, some high-cost farms would cut production or switch crops. Meanwhile, meat,...

Yet the agriculture industry is being tantalized by new crops that could prevent some farmers from being uprooted from their land. That is how the modern farmer gains access to a patchwork of different properties on which he plants his crops, county agriculture extension agents say. So farmers lease acreage from big landowners, who have other jobs and are holding the land as an investment and need an agriculture exemption for a tax break. Farmers say that what they can earn selling crops...