http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/ Cotton Industry Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:05:09 GMT Stamatis Kouroudis http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8283 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8283 Monday, October 3rd will mark the beginning of the Greek ginning period for 2005-2006. The current year is the last for the existing subsidy program. Let's Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:58:34 GMT Steve Ford http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8282 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8282 Also FWIW, I followed up on Barry's legwork and signed up for this service. The website has a two-week free trial. It works great. We'll keep it. Steve Ford Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:59:06 GMT Owen Taylor http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8281 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8281 I've posted this week's "AgFax: Midsouth Cotton" a day early, and it includes 13 harvest reports filed Sunday and today. They give an early but fairly broad Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:59:17 GMT James Lentz http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8280 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8280 Tensas Parish, LA adjacent to the Mississippi River, caught between 5" - 9" of rain. Fairly high winds. Interestingly enough Sunday was much windier and Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:18:43 GMT Keith Edmisten http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8279 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8279 With very little defoliation (completed) or harvest yet, this is what I am seeing. Many people think their cotton is hurt by drought so bad it will not regrow. Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:37:24 GMT James Langley http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8278 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8278 Yazoo City, MS got 3". Western Yazoo and Southern Humphreys Co.s got 4-6". Indianola, MS got 5". We had some wind gust Sunday morning but not as bad as with Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:26:30 GMT Barry B. Bean http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8277 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8277 Rita dealt the MO Bootheel only a glancing blow, dropping between .75 and 3 inches with some winds, but limited damage. We're hearing a few reports of some Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:53:25 GMT Shannon Pickering http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8276 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8276 Hello All, I just wanted to let the south Texas folks know that I live about an hour east of Dallas. If anybody is traveling north and seeking refuge I could Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:43:28 GMT Dan Mascheck http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8275 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8275 Barry, We are at my Mothers at Fayetteville ,TX. The traffic is as bad as the news media shows. Luckily I know so many back roads to get to our small ranch by Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:12:55 GMT Mike Stevens http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8274 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8274 Producers rushing to protect cotton crops from Rita By BETSY BLANEY ASSOCIATED PRESS Some of the state's cotton crop faces damage or destruction as producers Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:06:30 GMT Gordon Couger http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8273 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8273 Barry, At the current state of things in the high end cell phone market unless you have a need for one as I think I do a solution like that is best. Most of Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:47:23 GMT Barry B. Bean http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8272 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8272 Just a few days into the Bootheel cotton harvest, yields look to be pretty average - 800-900 lbs under the pivots and 625-650 lbs on dryland. Given the 5 day Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:58:48 GMT Barry B. Bean http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8271 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8271 FWIW, after looking at a half dozen options I found online, I opted for Ag Source One's cell phone quotes. Its not as robust as some of the WAP based services, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:31:11 GMT Barry B. Bean http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8270 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8270 ... Good luck - send us a "from the ground" report as soon as you can after the storm. BB -- Barry B. Bean Bean & Bean Cotton Company Peach Orchard, MO Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:05:07 GMT Mike Stevens http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8269 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/cotton-l/message/8269 Rita poses major threat to cattle, agriculture BY JOHN REYNOLDS - Lubbock Avalance-Journal If Rita comes ashore as expected - a major hurricane in the middle