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November 2013 Articles

Just Rambling, November 2013
Spiritual Corner:
Strategic Hay Feeding To Improve Soil Fertilit
Beef Cattle Body Condition
You can plant fall, winter vegetables now
Plant Winter Annual Forages for Wintering Beef Cattle Even When You “Have Ple
Producers earn credit at Master Farmer University
Fruit, vegetable growers learn new FDA food safety rules
Technology aids in bull testing, evaluation
• Cotton yields could reach record
Summary of October USDA NASS Cattle on Feed:
Fall fertilizer application can buy farmers time
AFBF and 250-Plus Groups Urge Congress to Pass Farm Bill
Louis Dreyfus Elevator
Poultry Grower Lois Alt Prevails Against EPA
Louisiana Rice Farmers Restructure Research and Promotion Programs
Feeding the Easy Keeper
Retained Ownership an Attractive Opportunity this Fall
Pumpkin Crunch
La. dairy farmers prepare for EPA visits

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Cotton yields could reach record

Cotton yields could reach record Writer: Tobie Blanchard at 225-578-5649 or tblanchard@agcenter.lsu.edu.
WINNSBORO, La. – As cotton harvest in Louisiana comes to an end, farmers are seeing record high yields, although the cotton acreage is at a record low, according to David Kerns, LSU AgCenter cotton specialist.
“I think we stand a good chance of breaking our pounds-per-acre record. Yields have been outstanding,” Kerns said. “I’ve seen dryland cotton picking as much as three bales to the acre. I’ve seen some four-bale irrigated acres. Those are exceptional yields.”
Farmers planted about 128,000 acres. Kerns said much of that was concentrated in areas that typically see higher yields.
Good weather also helped. Kerns said conditions were nearly perfect during the growing season.
“Temperatures weren’t exceptionally hot, and so we retained a lot more fruit in those conditions. We had good rainfall, and the insects weren’t real bad. We were successful in managing those pests,” he said.
Weather has been ideal during harvest as well. Kerns said dry and warm conditions helped with defoliation of the crop. And with no serious storms, the quality of the crop is good.
The low acreage continues to be a concern for the state’s cotton industry. With low cotton prices, Kerns doesn’t see acreage increasing much next year.
“It boils down to simple economics,” Kerns said. “The farmers are making more money growing corn and soybeans than they are cotton right now, so that is what they are going to plant.”
Several years of low cotton acreage, however, affects the infrastructure that supports the crop and the rural economies that depend on it.

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