Cotton Sustainability Program Launches Streamlined Enrollment
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol announced streamlined, three-year grower enrollment for the 2022 through 2024 crops. The new process is designed to be quick, easy and efficient, thereby allowing grower member cotton to enter the supply chain sooner.
The Trust Protocol’s mission is to bring quantifiable, verifiable goals and measurement to key sustainability metrics of U.S. cotton production with a vision where full transparency is a reality and continuous improvement to reduce our environmental footprint is the central goal.
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Louisiana Crops Newsletter: May 2022
In any ‘normal’ crop year, replanting costs play a substantial role in estimating the additional production cost per unit (bushel). However, inflationary pressures and input price volatility observed since the fall of 2021 have cut into expected profit margins for 2022.
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Cotton Planting Nearly Finished In Louisiana
Louisiana cotton planting is nearly complete. The state is expected to nearly double its acreage this year because of good cotton prices, and the high cost of nitrogen fertilizer has some farmers switching acres from corn to cotton. LSU AgCenter reporter Craig Gautreaux has this report.
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U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol Doubles Grower Participation in Second Year
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol announced that grower participation for the 2021/22 crop doubled since the program’s pilot last year.
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NASS to Reach out to Louisiana Producers on 2022 Crops, Stocks, and Values
During the next several weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will conduct two major mid-year surveys, the June Agricultural Survey and the June Area Survey.
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Delta Regional Crop Production Report: May 2022
This report contains the results from the 2022 May Ag Yield, 2021 Cotton Ginnings, and Objective Yield surveys.
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Louisiana Cotton Parish Estimates: May 2022
This report contains the results from the 2021 December Agricultural and Row Crop County Agricultural Production surveys.
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Cotton Specialists: Prepare For Early Season Pests
Nearly all the 2022 crop is in the ground with some of the earliest planted cotton in the western reaches of the state nearing first bloom. However, most of the crop across Arizona is not even to first square yet.
Managing very young cotton is critical to the eventual success of your crop.
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Acadiana's Native Brown Cotton Heads to Smithsonian Festival, United Nations Summit
South Louisiana's native brown cotton is heading to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and will also be featured at a United Nations summit next month.
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Cotton Planting Considerations
Cotton acreage in Louisiana is expected to increase substantially this year. Now is a great time to review a few key recommendations to ensure the 2022 season gets off to a great start.
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Independent Study Shows Strong, Positive Impacts For Cotton Research & Promotion Program Stakeholders
The 1996 Farm Bill requires The Cotton Board to conduct an independent, third-party evaluation every five years of the effectiveness of the Cotton Research & Promotion Program (the Program). The most recently concluded evaluation reflected well on the Program’s effectiveness both over the long-term (1986-2019) and over the last five years (2015-2019).
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Emerging Disease Issues In Cotton
The cotton leafroll dwarf virus causes yellowing and distortion of leaves and is believed to be vectored by the cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) during feeding.
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USDA Announces 2022 Cotton Loan Rate Differentials
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation today announced the 2022 crop loan rate differentials for upland and extra-long staple cotton which are applied to the crop loan rate to determine the per bale actual loan rate.
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Cotton Acres Going Up?
When USDA’s 2022 Prospective Plantings Report was released on March 31, it was no surprise that fertilizer-intensive corn acres were projected to be down across the country.
It also surprised few that the report projected soybean acres to be up — with farmers estimating they will plant a record-breaking 91 million acres of beans this spring.
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La. Crops Newsletter: April 2022
The planting dates for soybean in Louisiana range from early March to late June, depending on production systems and maturity groups. This variability in planting dates can expose soybean plants to a myriad of insect pests that can injure both below and above ground plant parts.
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