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Owen Taylor: Midsouth Cotton, 6-11: Agfax Midsouth Cotton: Wind, plant bugs and thrips move into the field. (Read More)

Virginia Cotton, 5-27: Summertime Conditions. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-27: Food Security; Doha Trade Talks and The Farm Bill; Ag Production Costs. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-23: Farm Bill Debate Wraps Up (Read More)

Gerloff On Cotton, 5-23: Grain and cotton prices fell; planting progressed (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-23: Remains in the bottom half of $4 trading range (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-23: Market pushed lower fueled by poor export report and planting progress (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-23: Wheat price vulnerable; corn little change. European Union may remove 10% set aside restriction on farmers. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-23: Closed higher; favorable weather contributed to bean acres moving to corn. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-22: Finger pointing over Bush's Farm Bill Veto heats up (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-22: Early highs disappeared into declines (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-22: Market continues to seesaws highs and lows (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-22: Wheat follows drop in crude. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-22: No boost today even with strong export and crush reports. (Read More)

Mississippi: Multi-Year Drought May be Over, 5-22: From dry to soggy weather in a few months. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Southern Grain, 5-22: AgFax Southern Grain: Too Wet in Southeast Midsouth; Too Dry in Texas (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-22: Finger pointing over Bush's Farm Bill Veto heats up (Read More)

Virginia Cotton, 5-21: Finally, First True Leaf Appears (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-21: Rice posted solid gains. Market appears to be stabilizing. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-21: Cotton turned a bit higher, but little excitement. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-21: Corn flirting with strong support due to high oil price, weak dollar and weather delays. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-21: Soybeans posted sharp gains thanks to $130 per barrel oil, weak dollar. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-21: "Analysis From Brussels" and "What is the CAP Health Check?" by Roger Waite, editor of AGRA FACTS (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth Cotton, 5-20: Agfax Midsouth Cotton: Heavy rains threw yet another monkey wrench into planting progress (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth/Texas Rice, 5-21: Agfax: Midsouth/Texas: We continue to hear about additional acres going into rice, and doublecropped in Texas. (Read More)

Weekly Outlook, 5-19: Hog Prices: Do you believe in miracles? (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-20: Solid gains posted; market appears to be stabilizing. U.S. plantings likely higher than March intentions. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-20: Supply situation bearish. 10 million bales of ending stocks with planting approaching 9 million acres. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-20: Wheat missed magic $8; corn closed in recovery. Record wheat harvest expected. Australia looks at 3rd year drought. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-20: Soybeans mostly higher. USDA reports only 27 percent of the soybean crop in the ground. The 5 year average is 47 percent. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-20: Farm Bill Cost Still Concern; Food Prices; CAP; Doha; Crop Progress (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-19: Rice rebounded from early losses to close mixed. Market appears to be stabilizing. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-19: Cotton closed well above day’s lows. Overall supply situation is bearish. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-19: Wheat futures sharply lower. Dry conditions reported in Australia where farmers trying to recover from two crop failure years in row. (Read More)

Mississippi: Guinea Pig Bandwagon 5-19: Dulaney brothers bump up bottom line with experiment and innovation on 4th generation farm (Read More)

Specialists Speaking, 5-19: Louisiana - Fungicide; Mississippi - Variety; Texas - Tankmix; California - Seedlings; Arkansas - Flood and Disease; Missouri - Irrigation (Read More)

Gerloff On Cotton, 5-17: If anything, prices are higher than one might expect (Read More)

Virginia Cotton, 5-19: Cotton planting is ongoing, and time to spray the fields that are up. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-19: "Analysis From Washington"- By Dan Morgan- Farm Bill Review. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Weekly AgUpdates, 5-19: Agfax AgUdates: This week's compilation of Extension bulletins and newsletters from http://agfax.com (Read More)

Owen Taylor: California Cotton, 5-19: Agfax San Joaquin Valley Cotton: A few worm treatments went out while a huge crop of almonds could make for a lot of mites this year. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Southeast Cotton, 5-19: Agfax Southeast Cotton: Adequate moisture expected and moderate temperatures should help keep the ball rolling. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: PeanutFax, 5-19: Agfax Peanut Report: Southeast growers caught moisture in late April and started planting at a fast pace. (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-16: Rice got a strong bounce, but market gave back a portion and closed near the bottom. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-16: Cotton was energized today (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-16: Wheat futures higher following soybeans, but the trend is still down. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-16: Soybeans ended with good gains; corn closed lower. (Read More)

Texas: Weekly Rice Progress Report, 5-16: High prices affect the planted acreage totals. (Read More)

Tennessee: Economics of Late Planting, 5-16: B. Goodman looks at the numbers involved in making a replant decision. (Read More)

Tennessee: Soybean Replant Decisions, 5-16: Two Field Methods guide replant decisions (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-16: Farm Bill 81-15, Food Prices (Read More)

Extension provides ‘ballpark’ haying expenses figures: Number crunching tells the story of increased fuel prices. (Read More)

North Carolina:: Wheat head scab alert (Read More)

Mississippi Farmweek On the Air: Farmweek, a half hour weekly series, has been on the air for 31 years. (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-15: Lower today; USDA put ’08 U.S. production at just 197 million cwt; virtually unchanged from 07. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-15: Cotton ended unchanged. Weekly export sales within trade expectations but too low to meet USDA’s annual estimates. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-15: Soybeans ended lower. But futures are well above USDA’s average price projection (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-15: A move up in wheat futures is more than likely just a corrective bounce. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Southern Grain, 5-15: AgFax Southern Grain: Midsouth sees too much rain; Southeast too little. Stinkbugs are showing up. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-15: House 318-106, House Passes Farm Bill Conference Agreement (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-14: Rice gapped lower today but still remains strong. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-14: Cotton was lower again today as overall fundamentals remain negative. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-14: Wheat future lower across the board. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-14: Today’s high close could bring resistance. (Read More)

Texas Agriculture Production Sets Record, 5-14: Higher crop and livestock prices topped out ag production at $21.8 billion (Read More)

Texas Crop and Weather, 5-14: Drought in one area while rain pours down on another (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth Cotton, 5-14: Agfax Midsouth Cotton: Tornadoes, more rain and river levee seepage continue to delay planting. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth/Texas Rice, 5-14: Agfax: Midsouth/Texas: Tornadoes, too much rain and is water seeding an option to get rice planted? (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-14: Farm Bill Conference Report Vote (Read More)

The Trickiest Call: Cotton Farming, May 2008 (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-13: Rice followed corn and wheat lower The overall fundamental picture remains tight. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-13: Cotton hanging low. Last week’s supply demand report limits upside potential, even with smaller crop. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-13: Today’s higher close could bring resistance. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-13: Wheat future lower across the board. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-13: Farm Bill; Crop Progress/Production; Doha (Read More)

Texas sweet onion harvest soured, 5-13: Big harvest on top of too much old crop still in storage (Read More)

Closing Rice, 5-12: Values improved later in the day. Little room for crop problems with World production estimates at 432 million metric tones. (Read More)

Closing Cotton, 5-12: Heavy carryover stocks pressure price. But projected 6 million bale drop in world stocks in 08-09 is light in the tunnel. (Read More)

Closing Grain, 5-12: Wheat stocks are low this year, but expectation of current bumper crop is keeping lid on the market. (Read More)

Closing Soybean, 5-12: Soybeans stalled below April 15 high of $13.15 ½ .Slow corn planting puts pressure on soybean seed. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-12: Farm Bill Focus; WASDE Analysis; Food Prices (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Weekly AgUpdates, 5-12: Agfax AgUdates: This week's compilation of Extension bulletins and newsletters from http://agfax.com (Read More)

Owen Taylor: California Cotton, 5-12: Agfax San Joaquin Valley Cotton: Pests are showing up but not yet treatable. Temperature still delaying factor. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Southern Grain, 5-12: AgFax Southern Grain: Corn planting delays pushed soybean planting, but seed supplies tight. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-11: A bullish commodity market moves food prices up, and may have dire consequences for import-dependent nations. (Read More)

Mississippi: Cotton holds promise, just on fewer acres: Higher prices promise good profits for 2008. (Read More)

Gerloff On Cotton, 5-12: After latest USDA report, exports remain the key. (Read More)

National Weekly Cotton Summary, 5-9: Planting well under way but severe weather kept things interesting in the South. (Read More)

USDA: Tennessee Has Largest Wheat Crop since 1982: Tennessee farmers seeded 620,000 acres last fall, up 47 percent from the previous year. But hay stocks are short. (Read More)

Rice: FDA Approves Heart, Cancer Health Claim for Brown Rice, 5-8: Consumers will be able to easily identify brown rice as a food to increase whole grain consumption. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth Cotton, 5-7: AgFax Midsouth Cotton: How much is the crop running behind? We hear 2 weeks or more in some locations. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth/Texas Rice, 5-7: Agfax: Midsouth/Texas: There’s no telling how much rice would have been planted this spring if everyone had gotten about half as many showers as they did. (Read More)

Keith Good Farm Policy, 5-8: Agreement on Farm Bill- Details Expected Today; Biofuels Hearing (Senate); Doha (Read More)

Virginia Cotton 5-5: Favorable Weather Forecast. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Weekly AgUpdates, 5-5: Agfax AgUdates: This week's compilation of Extension bulletins and newsletters from http://agfax.com (Read More)

Owen Taylor: California Cotton, 5-5: Agfax San Joaquin Valley Cotton: Cooler conditions in April slowed plant development in much of the San Joaquin Valley. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Southern Grain, 5-5: AgFax Southern Grain: Georgia and Louisiana early wheat ready for mid-May harvest. Corn up and growing in most locations. Soybean planters wide open where weather allows. (Read More)

Owen Taylor: Midsouth/Texas Rice, 4-30: Ricefax Report: Midsouth growers scramble to plant rice and other crops, especially in Arkansas and the upper Delta where thunderstorms delayed field work and seeding. (Read More)

Arkansas late-planted corn: Coping in a year when you're behind schedule. (Read More)

Plants Text Message Farmers When Thirsty: SmartCrop system based on USDA research in Texas. (Read More)

Virginia cotton planting looks favorable: Seeds will go into warm, moist soils - mostly in May. (Read More)

Arkansas farmers should brace for flood of insects: High water and planting delays complicate pest prospects for 2008. (Read More)

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OVERVIEW  May 22, 2008

Warmer – in places

Temperatures have started bumping up in more areas, and corn is responding.

Coastal dryness

Stretches of drought stress continue to be evident along the Gulf Coast. Areas west of Houston, Texas, have missed rain over the last 6 weeks, as have counties in north Florida and south Georgia.

CROP REPORTS

David Holshouser, Virginia Extension Soybean Specialist, Suffolk, Va.

“We keep getting rain, with temperatures running below normal. Soybean planting is way behind. The high here today is 75, with a low of 55, and that puts us right at the threshold of where we would plant without a fungicide. I think people are paying attention to these conditions. Seed quality is lower than we would like in many cases, plus supplies are limtied, so a lot of growers are being cautious. Few soybeans are up. Corn looks yellow and sickly. People are trying to sidedress early to spur it on, but the only thing that will really help now is heat.”

Hugh Whitby, KC Consulting, Wynne, Ark.

“Very few of our soybeans have been planted. We made some burndown applications, but not much has been done in the beans, otherwise. Wheat harvest is probably 3 weeks away.”

Wayne Dulaney, Dulaney Seed Co., Clarksdale, Miss.

“Since April 22, rain has limited us to 2 to 3 good days here and there. We’re getting in the field today (Monday), and it’s still a little wetter than we would like. People who started planting rice early are now trying to get into bean planting. People with corn are trying to get fertilizer out before it gets too big, and airplanes are dropping urea into corn today (Monday) between Tutwiler and Dublin on U.S. 49.”

John Woodruff, Georgia Extension Soybean Specialist

“Based on reports from several Extension agents, rains last week may delay wheat harvest a little. That would hold us back a bit on planting doublecrop soybeans. Rains brought good moisture to about two-thirds of the state, but our southern counties missed most of it.”

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DeWayne Dopslauf, Agriliance, Wharton, Texas

“We need a rain to keep soybeans going. This area continues missing all the rain along the Gulf Coast. We have guys pumping on corn already. I haven’t heard of anyone pumping on soybeans or milo yet. A lot of wheat has been cut.”

Trent LaMastus, Ind. Consultant, Cleveland, Miss.

"In Humphreys County we got over 6 inches of rain last Wednesday and Thursday. I couldn’t check one bean field Friday because it was under water. Our soybeans are at all stages, from still being planted to V3 and V4, with a very small part of the crop – planted in late March – trying to bloom. We’re spot-planting some fields but, so far, have not replanted any whole fields. We’re picking up a few bean leaf beetles. There are hardly any grasshoppers. Bugs have been under water so much that they would need a snorkel to survive. Corn is at V6 to V9, and we sprayed about 150 acres for stink bugs. No wheat has been cut yet, but it’s close.”

Ty Edwards, Edwards Ag Consulting, LLC, Water Valley, Miss.

"All of our MG IVs have been planted, and we’re now trying to squeeze in cotton planting before we start planting MG Vs. We’ve had to do a little replanting in wet spots due to a combination of slug damage and cool, wet soils. I would love to spray something to use on slugs, but nothing is available. Everybody is trying to get nitrogen out on corn, and we’re starting to pick up some heavier numbers of stink bugs in corn.”

David Hydrick, Hydrick’s Crop Consulting, Inc., Jonesboro, Ark.

"We’re spraying armyworms in wheat. They’re sporadic in spots and in the worst places are trying to eat every leaf. They’re worse in the better wheat and fields with bluegrass. Hail hit about 1,000 acres of cotton and soybeans pretty hard 10 days ago and also tore up some wheat. We’ve mostly got decent soybean stands – nothing great. Populations are running around 100,000 plants per acre. We’ve been real proud of the way preemergence herbicides worked in soybeans. We’ve been trying to get a bunch of Sequence and FirstRate applied on marestail.

“We’re finishing herbicides on corn and trying to get nitrogen applied. We’re right at 4- to 6-collar corn. Some chinch bugs and stink bugs are around in corn, and armyworms are trying to move from wheat into corn and rice. We’ve already replanted some corn due to seepage under the levee, and some cotton ground will be replanted or maybe switched to beans.”

Bill Brooks, Mid-South Farmers Cooperative, Alamo, Tenn.

"A little spot replanting is going on in the corn, and soybeans are being planted. It’s been a crazy year. Cotton, beans and corn are all being planted right now (Tuesday afternoon). We’ll end up planting more corn than we thought, and cotton acres will be down even a little more than expected. Beans may be up a little.”

David L. Wright, Florida Extension Agronomist, Quincy, Fla.

"Some people are harvesting wheat. We got rain last week. West Florida got 2 inches or more. In this part of the state, it ranged from 8 tenths to 1.2 inches, but it played out as you moved east of here. Temperatures have started warming a bit, but we still haven’t had those 95 degree highs that we sometimes get this time of the year.

“After last week’s rain, people pushed to plant soybeans. I’ve only seen a few fields up. Forecasts for even stronger soybean prices have people thinking about planting more. Some marginal land is coming back into production, and it will probably do okay on a short-term basis – until the nematodes build. Corn looks good but we’re still seeing cases of nutrient deficiency due to heavy rains. A lot of fall armyworms are on corn. We’ve seen some damage in the whorl in plots on the station, but we’re not treating, just watching them right now.”

Steve Schutz, Ind. Consultant, Coushatta, La.

"We’ve got beans at all stages. A little replanting may be going on. We’ve got some MG IVs that are beginning to lap on 19-inch rows and are starting that early bloom. No insects. The main problem has been wind damage and sandblasting. A small percentage drowned with the rain last week. We got 4 to 13 inches. Where we lost beans, it was mostly along ditches. Corn ranges from 4 to 9 leaves. It’s really responded to warmer weather. The fertilizer has taken hold. Wheat harvest will start within 7 to 10 days. It didn’t tiller early like we’d hoped, but maybe we can make up for that with head size.”

Curt Johnson, CRC Ag Consulting, LLC, Lake Village, Ark.

"Rains continue delaying us. One grower who has received flooding rains, one after another, got 3.5 inches last week, then another shower Sunday. People are still trying to finish rice planting, which is further pushing back soybeans. At least one farmer will end up planting his regular soybeans and doublecrop beans at the same time. We have a late crop, which would seem to be conducive to soybean rust. Some wheat will probably be cut Wednesday or Thursday.”

Rob Ferguson, Louisiana Interim Coordinator, Soybeans-Feed Grains

"Heavy rains last week left us with standing water in several locations, particularly in north portions of East Carroll and West Carroll Parishes. In mostly drained off quickly, but some replanting will be required where water stood longer. Some soybeans also flooded in several parishes in central and southern Louisiana. In northeast Louisiana, one location got 10 inches of rain. Around St. Landry, it totaled 8 inches. Other areas got 2 to 4 inches.”

Pawel Wiatrak, South Carolina Corn and Soybean Specialist, Blackville, S.C.

"Soybeans are about 30% planted. Growers will keep planting, but more will go in after wheat. We got a little rain last night (Tuesday), with some areas getting up to a half-inch. Corn was showing signs of drought stress in places. The rain will help, but we need more rain and soon. It’s warm again, mostly in the low 80s.”

Herbert Jones Jr., Ind. Consultant, Leland, Miss.

"Soybeans are starting to grow good. We’ve had a lot of rain that brought up weeds, but pressure hasn’t been extreme. We’ve made Roundup applications on about half the crop. I found my first little grasshoppers today around the edge of some woods, but I’ve seen very few insects in soybeans otherwise. We’ve got beans from V2 to a few at R1. Cold weather held back the early plantings, and they’re starting to bloom low on the plant. Last week it rained anywhere from 2 to 12 inches. We’re going to have to replant some soybeans, maybe 200 acres. We had rain the week before, so water furrows were in places and ditches had been cleaned out, and that kept it from being worse. Beans are nodulating good on old cotton ground. We inoculated, but I was dubious about how much nodulation we could expect.”

Angela Thompson, Tennessee Soybean and Feed Grain Specialist

"About 20% of our soybeans are planted. We had warmer, drier weather this week, and folks have been planting steadily. There’s just a small chance of rain Thursday, and I don’t think anyone will slow down. People are finding thinner stands than they would like in some earlier planted beans. It’s hard to say if this was a seed issue, the wet and cold weather or some combination of all that. In cases, growers only got 50% emergence initially and kept waiting for the rest to emerge. But we continued getting rain and cool conditions, and that was about all that came up. This has created real problems, since some of these beans were for August delivery, and growers will have to keep the stands they’ve got.”

Trey Bullock, Bullock’s Ag Consulting, Hattiesburg, Miss.

"In some sandy spots, corn is twisting a little, but our corn looks great overall. A little wheat cutting just started. We stripped some corn into wheat after the frost in April devastated some fields. I’m estimating that a lot of what we kept will be off 40% to 50% due to frost damage.”

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