Sunbelt Ag News

DOANE: Cotton Comment

U.S. Diesel Fuel Cost Survey 3-18

AFB Closing Rice: Mixed For Today's Session 3-18

DTN Closing Cotton: Reversal Lifts Cotton To Two-Week High 3-18

DTN Closing Grain: Corn, Beans Close Higher 3-18

DTN Wheat Market Sense 3-18

Mississippi: Winter’s Cold And Rain Does Not Bother Bugs 3-18

Arkansas: UA Weed Scientist Tackles Weed Control On Rice Levees 3-18

DTN Midday Livestock: Live Cattle Futures Skyrocket Higher 3-18

DTN Midday Grain: All Grains Seen Lower at Midday 3-18

Linn Wheat: Export Sales With In Range 3-18

Linn Soybean Commentary: Calls Are Lower Despite Good Export Sales 3-18

Linn Group Corn Commentary: Choppy Trade 3-18

Diesel, gasoline prices increase fourth straight week 3-18

DTN Early Cotton: U.S. all-cotton weekly export sales topped expectations and shipments slowed but reached USDA estimate 3-18

Ethanol Industry Running out of Reasons for Subsidies 3-18

DTN Early Grains: Lower Overnight 3-18

K. Good Farm Policy: Budget; Climate; Biofuels; Ag Econ; Food Safety; and Animal Ag 3-18

DTN Early Livestock: Primed to Open Higher 3-18

Louisiana: Stripe Rust Now Considered "Widespread" In State's Wheat 3-17

DTN Closing Livestock: Fund Buyers Remain in Driver's Seat of Live Cattle 3-17

Texas: Right Choices Now Mean High Plains Cotton Profits Later 3-17

Louisiana Burndown and Herbicide Trials, Concordia and Tensas Parishes: Hummel Rice Blog 3-17

Texas: What is rain harvesting? Course scheduled, Kerrville, April 12-13 3-17

California: Rain and Snow Increase 2010 Water Supplies for Agribusiness 3-17

India may export wheat as stocks bulge 3-17

Keeping Herbicide Drift Where it Belongs 3-17

Crop Shares Still Reign in this Delta County 3-17

Can the Midwest get 2010 corn planted in this wet spring? 3-17

Texas: Agricultural Conference Set for March 31 in Snyder 3-16

Retail Fertilizer Trends 3-16

South Louisiana Rice Planting Conditions Taking Shape 3-15

USDA National Weekly Rice Summary 3-8

Upcoming Events:

(FD: field day; SS: scout schools)

Alabama: Row Crop Insect Management for Maximum Profit, March 18, 9 am, David’s Catfish House, Atmore.

Georgia: Pigweed in Peanuts and Cotton Meeting, March 19, 12 pm, Worth County Extension Office, Sylvester.

Georgia: Cotton Production Meeting, March 22, 7 pm, Coffee County Extension office, Douglas.

Texas: Beef Production Workshop, March 24, 11:30 am, Miami Community Center, Miami.

Georgia: Commercial Pesticide Credit Meeting, March 26, 8:30 am, Coffee County Extension office, Douglas.

Texas: Agriculture Conference, March 31, 8:30 am, Scurry Coliseum, Snyder.

Arkansas: Ozark Food Processors Association Convention and Exposition, April 6-7, Springdale.

Mississippi: Magnolia Beef and Poultry Expo, April 8, Smith County Agricultural Complex, Raleigh.

Pennsylvania Agronomy Scout School, April 10, Penn State Campus.

Texas:Rain Harvesting Course, April 12-13, Kerrville, The Ag Barn, 3650 Highway 27.

Texas: Predator Workshop, April 13, 8 am, Edward County 4-H Barns, Rocketsprings.

Texas Urban Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, April 15, 6:30 pm, AgriLife Extension office, Canyon.

Texas Brush Control Workshop, April 20, 8 am, Edwards County Annex Building, Edwards County.

Louisiana: Rice Grower Board Meeting, April 28, 7 pm, Vermilion Extension Office, Abbeville.

Texas Urban Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, May 20, 6:30 pm, AgriLife Extension office, Canyon.

Texas Urban Ranchers and Small Acreage Short Course, June 17, 6:30 pm, AgriLife Extension office, Canyon.

Tennessee: 26th Milan No-Till Crop Production Field Day, July 22, tennu@bellsouth.net

North Carolina 2010 Cotton Field Day, Sept. 16, Gary Respess Farm, Beaufort County.

To list an event, contact Owen Taylor