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Barry B. Bean
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May 6, 2003 10:03 pm
-- Barry B. Bean Bean & Bean Cotton Company Peach Orchard, MO www.beancotton.com www.beanformissouri.org...
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Joe and Kim Townsend
townsend@...
May 7, 2003 12:29 am
North Delta - Mississippi Planting stopped due to 2-5 inches of rain last night. Plantings were 40-100% planted, depending on the amount of rain 10 days or so...
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Carl Hobbs
carl@...
May 7, 2003 10:15 am
We are close to 65% planted in South Georgia, I'd guess. We'll hit a little bit of a lull on progress for a couple of weeks as growers shift some resources to...
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Bill Brooks
bbrooks@...
May 7, 2003 1:12 pm
West TN. We are behind and it is raining cats and dogs as I write. 10-20% planted is my best guess. What do you think Jim Nunn?? Looking at several days...
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Jim Nunn
nunncotn@...
May 7, 2003 1:52 pm
The planting progress report had Tennessee at 20% Sunday, and I can not argue with that. There are farmers I have spoken with who have not planted a seed,...
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Barry B. Bean
bbbean@...
May 7, 2003 3:10 pm
MO is wet, wet, wet. Although the sand cotton, and a handful of areas that have caught the rains just right have made good progress, the vast majority of MO ...
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Bill Brooks
bbrooks@...
May 7, 2003 3:21 pm
Jim, Not a lot of 1218 in our county. It is our #2 booked stacked gene seed, but it is due to one growers large order. Carroll county is big on 1218, but ...
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Jack R Mauney
jacmauney@...
May 7, 2003 10:51 pm
Carl/and the list: You should listen when the company man says that you have to start the PIX early on DPL 555. I didn't last year and it almost got out of...
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Barry B. Bean
bbbean@...
May 13, 2003 10:27 pm
Things are looking bad in the Bootheel. With regular rains for the past several weeks, river over floodstage, more rain on the way, the Missouri crop looks...
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Dan Mascheck
mascheck@...
May 13, 2003 11:41 pm
You could be like us in the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas...We thought we would never be able to plant, due to early season rains....Then eventually.....all went...
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Don Cameron
CAMERON177@...
May 14, 2003 2:25 am
The cotton crop in California is off to one of the worst starts in many years. After 3 months of no rain, April turned out to be one of the wettest on record....
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
May 14, 2003 2:37 am
I just drove tought Tillman County and saw weat dying it the fieild. There will be a lot of no till if it ever rains. There have been some streaks of thunder...
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Sledge Taylor
sledget@...
May 14, 2003 2:46 am
Barry, Here in Northwest Mississippi 50 miles south of Memphis is no better--we are 65% planted on our farm and some of that may need replanting. The earliest ...
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Bill Brooks
bbrooks@...
May 14, 2003 12:21 pm
What you said, Barry. Some fields have nothing but rotting seed in the bottoms and a really good stand on the hills. Conventional fields slicked over for the...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
May 14, 2003 12:26 pm
... From: "Bill Brooks" <bbrooks@...> To: <COTTON-L@...> Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 7:18 PM Subject: Re: MO Cotton - WHAT MO Cotton? ...
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Barry B. Bean
bbbean@...
May 14, 2003 6:53 pm
... That's what I'm hearing from my friends in Ruleville. They're looking for rain. -- Barry B. Bean Bean & Bean Cotton Company Peach Orchard, MO ...
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Anton Doroszenko ,Con...
a.doroszenko@...
May 19, 2003 10:48 am
Here is the other side of the story to U.S. cotton subsidies. About one third of Malians depend on cotton for survival. ...
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Bob Goodman
wgoodman@...
May 19, 2003 1:00 pm
i would like to know if it is. i saw where the "average" us cotton farmer gets about $48,000. if there are about 30,000 us cotton farmers, that works out to...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
May 20, 2003 8:44 am
... From: "Anton Doroszenko ,Content Manager, Organic Research" <a.doroszenko@...> To: <COTTON-L@...> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 5:46 AM ...
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Barry B. Bean
bbbean@...
May 20, 2003 1:57 pm
... Its also an attractive mistake to make if you want to portray American farmers as fat cats fed by the gov and gain political advantage for someone else. --...
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Sledge Taylor
sledget@...
May 20, 2003 5:04 pm
One curious thing that reporters fail to point out is that most everyone in the so called developed world makes more than their counterpart in the developing...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
May 20, 2003 9:13 pm
... From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@...> ... farmers as fat cats ... If we are so well fed by the government why have so many of us gone broke over ...
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Steve Ford
fordmgmt@...
May 20, 2003 11:08 pm
Here are some links to World Bank publications on cotton in Mali. The second is more in-depth and covers other West African nations, too. Interestingly, it...
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Brooks Cotton Company...
brookcot@...
May 20, 2003 11:26 pm
On The Money, Sledge! Your comment opens another broad area of thought. (The risk of opening ones mouth is that the depth of ones intelligence is exposed)....
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Sledge Taylor
sledget@...
May 21, 2003 2:01 am
David, I have also lost a lot of respect for the news media. They are under pressure to make money first and foremost and they sensationalize the news to sell...
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Gordon Couger
gcouger@...
May 21, 2003 7:37 am
If the government is still skimming 50% off the price of cotton there is precious little left for the framer. US subsides are sure less of a problem than the...
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Anton Doroszenko ,Con...
a.doroszenko@...
May 21, 2003 9:25 am
Surely it is not just about the size of the subsidy but the size of the production too. US production and subsidies distort the world market, while EU cotton...
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Anton Doroszenko ,Con...
a.doroszenko@...
May 21, 2003 10:15 am
The salaries issue is a red herring. Creating a level playing field and free access to markets are the issues. If a hypermarket sells a product at below cost...
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Dan Mascheck
mascheck@...
May 21, 2003 11:17 am
I agree with your assessment of our news media...I do resent the term propaganda...That supposes the government controls the media...and in the USA they do...
