Sunbelt Ag News:

DOANE: Cotton Commentary

Grain, Cotton, L'stock Updates

Texas: Rio Grande Cotton Crop Could Be Scrubbed by Hurricane Dolly 7/23

Soybean Rust: 2 more Florida panhandle counties confirmed this week 7/23

Louisiana seeks disaster declaration for 23 parishes hit by drought 7/23

Virginia Cotton: Pix decisions 7/23

Closing Rice: Rice followed crude oil and other grains lower 7/23

Closing Cotton: Market Rallies Strongly From New Low For Move 7/23

Closing Grain: Continued Lower Trends for Corn, Soybeans, Wheat 7/23

Oil, Dollar Behind Food Price Rally 7/23

Closing Livestock: Short Covering Pushes Live Cattle Moderately Higher 7/23

Midday Grain: Futures Lower 7/23

Midday Livestock:Deferred Meat Futures Continue to Crash 7/23

Opening Cotton: Cotton Futures Extend Losses 7/23

Opening Grain: Grains Sharply Lower Overnight 7/23

Renewable Energy Grants and Loans Awarded by USDA 7/23

Opening Livestock: Cattle Futures Likely to Soften on Opening 7/23

Jurgens Bauer's Cotton Comments: values went on the negative 7/23

Alaron Grains and Oilseeds Comment 7/22

Alaron Energy Comment 7/22

Closing Rice: Overall movement remains in a narrow consolidation area 7/22

Shift in Sweeteners 7/22

Closing Cotton: Speculative Selling Maintains Pressure On Cotton 7/22

Closing Grain: Corn Still Falling into Abyss 7/22

EPA on the Clock to Pick Waiver Winner 7/22

EU and U.S. Offer Cuts on Subsidies 7/22

Lamy Says Now is Time for Action 7/22

Congress Investigating Speculation 7/22

Stocks Look to Fall After Earnings Report 7/22

Stocks Turn Lower on Drug Worries 7/21

USDA National Weekly Rice Summary 7/21

Stocks Set to Open Higher 7/21

Alabama: July turning out to be mostly favorable for crops in central, south Alabama 7/21

Tennessee: Certain resistance-fighting herbicides in short supply 7/21

Arkansas: What happened to the bollworms? 7/21

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Sugar, U.S. Nut Markets

Upcoming Events:

(FD: field day; SS: scout schools)

Louisiana and Arkansas USA Rice Farm Bill Education Meetings, 7/21-23.

North Carolina Cotton SS, 7/22, Halifax and Northampton Counties.

Texas - "Pricing Cotton in Volatile Market" Workshop, 7/23, $20, 10 am to 4:30 pm, Texas Agrilife Center, Lubbock. Info: Wendy at 806-746-6101

South Carolina Soybean SS, 7/23. Cotton Museum, Bishopville, 8:30 am. RSVP.

North Carolina Cotton SS, 7/24, Wilson County.

Tennessee 25th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day, 7/24, 7 am, University of Tennessee REC, Milan.

Louisiana Master Farmer Program FD, 7/24, sugarcane producers, Ronald Hebert's Farm, Jeanerette.

Arkansas Rohwer Research Station FD, 7/24, Rohwer.

Mississippi 2008 Tri-State Pecan Trade Show and Convention, 7/24-25, Vicksburg Convention Center, Vicksburg.

Texas Corn FD, 8/7, 9:30 am, Texas AgriLife Research North Plains Research Field, Etter.

North Carolina, Northeast Ag Expo FD, 8/8, Chowan County Extension Center, Tyner

Arkansas - RiceTec Hybrid Rice Field Day, 8/12, Harrisburg, Ark.

Georgia Southeast Bioenergy Conference, 8/12-13, Tifton.

University of Arkansas Rice FD, 8/13, 7:30 am, UA Rice REC, Stuttgart.

Virginia Ag Expo, 8/14, Billy Bain Farms, Dinwiddie.

Mississippi Row Crop FD, 8/14, 8 am, Agri-Center, Verona.

Kansas K-State Risk and Profit Conference, 8/14-15, Noon, K-State Alumni Center, Manhattan.

Arkansas: Cache River Valley Seed FD, 8/20, Cash.

Louisiana Dean Lee Research and Extension FD, 8/21, Sandy Stewart for info, Alexandria.

Missouri Rice FD, 8/27, Missouri Rice Research Farm.

Kansas 2008 FD, 8/28, 8:30, K-State Southwest REC, Garden City.

Missouri Delta Center Rice FD, 9/2, Portageville.

Louisiana Wheat Production Meeting, 9/11, 8 am, Dewitt Livestock Facility, LSUA Campus, Alexandria.

National Conservation Systems Cotton & Rice Conference, 1/26-27, 2009, Marksville, La.

To list an event, contact Owen Taylor