The Oklahoma cotton industry says the herbicide 2,4-D used by many ranchers and wheat farmers often drifts onto cotton fields and damages the crop. By ROD WALTON World Staff Writer 6/26/2007 Some of Oklahoma's cotton farmers are picking political fights with wheat and cattle producers who use a certain herbicide that is good for controlling weeds in pastures but proves detrimental to the state's lucrative cotton crop. Pick of the herbicides: Neighbors' spray irks cotton farmers. By ROD...

Corn acres are way up and bean acres are way down this year. The ethanol industry's hunger for corn is having a huge effect on the number of acres planted to corn in Iowa and the U. The increase in corn acreage has resulted in approximately the same amount of decrease in soybean acreage in most Midwest states. That's down 15% from last year's soybean acreage nationwide. It's also impacting soybean acreage. The impact this big shift in acres will have on the rest of the world is very...

The number of tobacco farmers in North Carolina has declined because of the elimination of federal price supports and a decline in smoking, but some counties have become even bigger producers of tobacco. Johnston County leads the state in production with 22. The number of tobacco farmers in North Carolina has declined because of the elimination of federal price supports and a decline in smoking, but some counties have become even bigger producers of tobacco. Johnston County leads the state...

The report showed more acres of feed grains and fewer acres of soybeans, cotton, and spring wheat than had been anticipated. However, harvested acreage is expected to be 6.471 million more than harvested last year when drought conditions resulted in significant abandonment of hard red winter acreage. It is significant that the corn market has moved from worrying about declining crop conditions to anticipating a surplus in a period of just two weeks. If the remainder of the 2007 growing...

Market sources believe that if the acreage under cotton decreases by a negligible margin, the output would remain the same as of last year. With Tuesday, being Bhim Agiyaras an auspicious day for the farmers of the region, almost half of the sowing work has been completed, according to sources in the state agriculture department. Meanwhile, the cultivation of cotton is expecte to be more or less the same as that of the last year. The major crops to be cultivated are groundnut and cotton,...

He further added that the country should grow more of organic cotton and be the first choice as supplier for the growing markets. However, industry experts believe that there is a huge potential for increasing the organic cotton production. Organic cotton, currently, makes up a minuscule share in the total cotton production. Rising enquiries from international brands are likely to more than double the global production of organic cotton in the next two years. If textiles firms want to go...