Cotton variety tech fee information for both Monsanto and Dow can be found at the AgriAFC web site.
Here's the direct link to the listings, which are broken down by state or region in both the Delta states and the Southeast.
Thanks to Angus Catchot for passing this along.
My friend Vern Crawford -- who lives in Kern County, California, and is widely known as "Vern From Kern" -- attended the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California, this week and said the neatest new product he saw was a gizmo called the Ag Flag.
Roundup Ready Resistance has been an ongoing news item on agfax.com and in some of our crop newsletters for the last couple of years.
University newsletters and blogs are full of stories about weeds that have become and are becoming resistant to the weed killer, also known as glyphosate. The best minds in agriculture are thrashing around with ideas and suggestions for the biggest gun to take to the showdown with Pigweed. The good news is that they are coming up with recommendations. The bad news is that there is no magic bullet and fighting herbicide resistance is a war, not a battle.
If you grew up in a location like me, the rural Mississippi Delta, then you probably longed for cable tv like your "city" friends had.
We were lucky. Our house had a tv antenna. It stood like a mighty sentinel collecting ALL three possible tv channels and pouring news and entertainment into our lives. It even worked pretty well, depending on the weather. Wind was hard on tv antennas and in at least one instance, a hefty antenna repairman and our roof came to a bad end.
Anyone in the business of farming will probably find at least one item of interest in a White Paper prepared by The Center for Agricultural Law and Taxation (CALT).
Here's a quick list of the the Top 10 Agricultural Law Developments of 2010 items using the David Letterman method:
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