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Sunbelt Ag News:
DOANE:
Cotton Commentary
Grain, Cotton, L'stock Updates
Livestock New
Peanuts: Planting starts in
Southeast with lower moisture and higher seed costs 5/10
Gerloff On Cotton: After latest USDA report, exports remain the key 5/10
Mississippi: Cotton holds promise, just on fewer acres
5/9
Closing Livestock: Most Live Cattle Months Finish Week by Setting New
Contract Highs 5/9
Closing Cotton: Cotton Remains in Upper Half of Trading Range
5/9
Alaron Grains and Oilseeds Comment 5/9
National Weekly
USDA Cotton Report 5/2
Closing Grain: Bullish New-Crop Corn Market Ends Week at $6.50
5/9
Leaders Skeptical of Farm Bill Reforms 5/9
Bush Veto Could Plow Under Farm Bill 5/9
Considerations before making the switch from corn to soybeans 5/9
Rice new crop futures hammered after USDA projections. 5/9
Cotton
up in reaction to USDA supply/demand report. 5/9
Tennessee:
Is it too late to plant corn? 5/9
Midday Grain: Corn Mixed at Midday 5/9
Midday Livestock: Bullish Feedlot Managers rewarded 5/9
Tennessee Has Largest Wheat Crop
Since '82; Hay Stocks Low 5/9
Linn Group Corn Comments:
Traders finally starting to worry about planting delays 5/9
National Weekly
USDA Grain Market Review 5/9
Opening Cotton: May Supply-Demand Data Released 5/9
Opening Grain: Grains, Soybeans to Open Higher 5/9
Opening Livestock: Livestock Pits to Open Mixed on Follow-Through Buying,
Profit-Taking Combo 5/9
President Will Veto Farm Bill 5/9
Conference Committee Releases Farm Bill Report 5/9
Midwest Senators Oppose RFS Waiver 5/9
Large Wheat Crop May Not Drop Prices 5/9
Florida: Extension hit with funds cuts 5/8
Farm Bill Agreement Reached 5/8
Alaron Energy:
Oil supplies surge and dollar rallies but oil set new high anyway
5/8
U.S.
Diesel Fuel Cost Survey 5/8
World
Ag Markets Busy Through Mid-Week 5/8
Closing Livestock: Beef Futures Jump Higher 5/8
Closing Cotton: Cotton Settles At 6-Session High Closes 5/8
Closing Grain: Corn's Higher Trend Revitalized 5/8
Bush May Not Stop Farm Bill 5/8
USDA Crop Reports Preview 5/8
Lawmakers Mull Ethanol Policy 5/8
Peanuts: Convoy 40SC Fungicide Receives EPA
Registration 5/8
Rice: FDA Approves Heart, Cancer Health
Claim for Brown Rice 5/8
Kansas:
Wheat Producers Should Watch
Fields Closely for Insects 5/8
Memphis-based foundation focuses on bio-based economic growth MCA
5/8
Louisiana: Wheat Growing
Conditions Good, LSU Personnel Say 5/8
ICGA Opposes Waiving the Renewable Fuels Standard 5/8
"We think there is a great deal to be said about the fiscal responsibility
in this bill," Goodlatte said 5/8
Senate Hearing Questions Use of Ethanol Subsidies 5/8
Alaron Grains and Oilseeds: Going to be concern over further planting delays
5/7
Virginia
Cotton: Cutoff Date For Planting 5/7
Soaked Midsouth farmers tired of waiting for the sun MCA 5/7
Debate Continues on Blame for High Food Prices 5/7
House Holds Hearing on RFS Implications 5/7
National Sorghum Checkoff Approved 5/7
National
Weekly USDA Cotton Report 5/2
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Louisiana:
Wheat Growing
Conditions Good, LSU Personnel Say
By Mary Ann Van Osdell
LSU AgCenter
WINNSBORO (May 8, 2008) --
Wheat experts from the LSU AgCenter say growing conditions are good
and diseases are minimal for the 2008 crop. LSU AgCenter experts addressed variety trials, diseases and weed control
at the annual wheat and oat field day held recently at the AgCenter’s Macon
Ridge Research Station at Winnsboro. After the indoor presentations, the 70 participants viewed the state
variety trials, led by Dr. Steve Harrison, LSU AgCenter small grains plant
breeder.
 “We need to pay attention to varieties,” Harrison said. “There are
disease problems we don’t normally see because of the varieties we’re
growing and the amount.” The Louisiana wheat crop is the biggest since 1985 and second largest
ever, Harrison said. “We’ve got 400,000 acres of wheat this year,” the plant breeder said.
“All in all, our wheat is good to very good. “We pretty much got our wheat planted on time,” Harrison said of planting
season, which he called “very good.” Heavy rainfall in Central and South Louisiana created some waterlogged
soils, said Dr. Clayton Hollier, LSU AgCenter plant pathologist. But he
agreed that the crop looks good. “The wheat is headed nicely, and good yields will be had,” Hollier said. Hollier said there is an increase in disease problems this year compared
with the past several years, but on the whole they are still less than he
expected. In some wet areas, the crop is suffering from downy mildew, he
said. “Wheat does not like wet feet,” Hollier said. It is much better to manage a disease from a preventive measure than to
clean up after it, said Dr. Boyd Padgett, an LSU AgCenter plant pathologist,
who discussed fungicide trials and disease control. Dr. Bill Williams, an LSU AgCenter weed scientist, reminded growers and
consultants that good seedbed preparation and early herbicide application
are the best protections for weed control.
 Hessian fly is prevalent in fields around Interstate 10 west of Baton
Rouge and in Winnsboro and Delhi, said Dr. Roger Leonard, an LSU AgCenter
entomologist. “I doubt we’ll see much yield loss, but it could infest next fall’s crop
if they move to adjacent fields,” Leonard said. He said producers from Louisiana to Georgia use seed treatment to slow
down Hessian fly problems. “If it weren’t for these research stations, I don’t know what we farmers
would do,” said Johnnie Etier of Richland Parish. He has attended field days
at LSU AgCenter’s Macon Ridge, Hill Farm, Rosepine and Dean Lee research
stations over his 76 years of farming 285 acres. “Personnel bend over backwards,” Etier said. “They help any way they
can.”
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