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Cotton Prices Could Fall if Crop Develops as Expected

Dan August 22, 2017 Cotton

If the U.S. cotton crop turns out as big as some expect, what will happen to cotton stocks and prices? Gary Crawford has the story. According to USDA’s weekly crop progress report, 97 percent of the Alabama cotton crop was setting bolls with 6 percent of those bolls opening. In Florida, 94 percent of the cotton crop …

U.S. House Chairs Ask for H-2A Effectiveness Evaluation
Two U.S. House of Representatives committee chairs recently sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking it to evaluate the effectiveness of the H-2A visa program. The letter was sent by Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx of North Carolina and Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania. The H-2A visa […]
Improved Method for Evaluation of Canopy Density
The American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) journal HortScience recently published an article that describes a simple, low-cost method for accurate canopy evaluation of citrus. The authors are Taylor Livingston, Amit Levy and Tripti Vashisth of the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences Citrus Research and Education Center. A summary of the […]

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