Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Organic Cotton--Benefits Other Than Yield?

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 Here's an assessment of the impact of growing organic cotton in India. It seems the   result is not higher yields (no surprise) but the...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022

The Complexities of Cotton

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 Virginia Postrel has a substack article , touching on changes in cotton production from 1920s (her grandfather was in the trade) to now.  I...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

ELS Cotton in Egypt

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New Yorker had an article on ELS cotton grown in Egytpt.  The industry is in decline.  I'd question some things in the article: the s...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

First American Cotton Mill and Eli Whitney

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On Dec. 20 there was mention of the anniversary of the first American cotton mill. What struck me at the time, though I'm just getting ...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Cottonseed Makes It In

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Cottonseed will be a program crop in the farm bill according to Keith Good. I've lost any expertise I once had in this area, but this...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Cottonseed Again

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Illinois extension has a piece on the cottonseed provisions of the 2018 Senate Ag appropriations bill. To my jaundiced eye, it looks as if ...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Cotton Wants

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Am I getting old and  forgetful--I don't remember blogging about this program.  Remember the pressure on Vilsack to do something for cot...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

More on Cotton

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IL extension has a comparison of cotton support versus other commodities
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Cottonseed Again

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Illinois extension has a post on the cottonseed issue.  As it says, in greater detail than I have the brain cells to waste on, it's com...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Farm Bill--Cotton Issues

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Cotton producers are pushing for changes in the program when the 2018 farm bill is written.  Oilseed coverage for cottonseed production, whi...
Monday, February 13, 2017

Farm Bill Stirrings

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The first Congressional work on the next farm bill is starting.  This piece focuses on what the cotton growers want.  Here's the Econom...
Thursday, February 02, 2017

Trade Is NOT Simple: Vietnam Spinning for China

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Lyman Stone tweets, but has a day job, which includes this piece on cotton exports to Vietnam, which are part of a complex web of relation...
Friday, July 01, 2016

No Cottonseed Loans But Another Cotton Program

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AEI has a post criticizing the new cotton program , taking a cynical view of the motivations, as one might expect of them. It reminds me I...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Cottonseed Yet Again

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I've blogged on the issue of making cottonseed an oilseed before.  Here's a good backgrounde r by Keith Good on the issue.  Short...
Thursday, February 04, 2016

Cottonseed Revisited

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Chris Clayton reports on the cottonseed/oilseed question --Vilsack says OGC says he doesn't have authority to decide that cottonseed is...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Cottonseed Equals Oilseed?

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Illinois extension has a discussion on the possibility of cottonseed being added to the list of oilseeds covered by farm programs.  Up to ...
Thursday, December 24, 2015

Cotton Humor from Chris Clayton

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You have to know the background but this is from Chris Clayton's (tongue in cheek) 2016 Policy Outlook: Cotton planting increases from...
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Cotton Farming Today

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NPR has a five chapter feature tracing the history of a cotton t-shirt.  The first chapter is focused on a Mississippi cotton farm.  Surpri...
Monday, December 31, 2012

Round Bales (of Cotton, Not Hay)

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The cotton growers have discovered the virtues of round bales, according to this.   The piece mentions the changes ginners have to make, bu...