Texas Cotton Pact Frays Over Early Contract Claims
Central Texas farmers accuse buyers of pressuring and cheating under early contracted JOT cotton sales. The Texas Cotton Association says most early contracts were sold to mills or for export at fixed prices, arguing abuses could threaten the industry’s stability and trigger legal disputes.
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Texas
Texas Cotton Associa
Tire Service
Austin
Texas House Agriculture
Coost Central Fesas
TCA
Idris Traylor
Libbock
Cotton
High Plains
ICA
Forecasted Heat and Showers Across Regions
The National Weather Service predicts continued hot weather nationwide as a warm front moves north into the Northeast. Warm air pushes into the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region with showers forecast for the Great Lakes, Maine, and the Southwest.
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National Weather Service
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Maine
Miracle Rice and the Green Revolution in Asia
A report on the Green Revolution in rice, its promise to lift Asia from poverty, and the challenges faced by farmers. It notes Miracle Rice yields, the 1960s breakthrough, and the gap between potential bumper crops and real farm conditions amid high costs and access issues.
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Washington
Asia
Sion
Fertilizer Shortage Delays Wheat Planting in New Mexico
Eastern New Mexico farmers face delayed winter wheat plantings as nitrogen fertilizer shortages limit seedbed preparation. Local officials and distributors in Curry Roosevelt and Quay counties cite reduced inventories, plant repairs, and export orders as key factors. Prices rise as farmers seek any available supply to protect grain output.
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New Mexico
Hoyt Pattison
Curry County
United States
New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau
Roosevelt County
Quay County
High Plains Distributing Co
Preston Martin
Clovis
James Parker
A&s Farm Supply Co
Parker
Louisiana
Phil Crystal
Texas grants fund cattle rustling prevention workshops
Texas officials allocate 42000 dollars from the State Criminal Justice Council through Sam Houston State University to the Institute of Contemporary Corrections. The funds, approved by the Legislative Budget Board, will finance two day workshops for sheriffs and other law enforcement officers to curb cattle rustling nationwide.
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Austin, Tex
UPL
Texas
Institute of Contemporary Corrections
Sam Houston State University
Teac
State Criminal Justice Council
Huntsville School
Legisaative Budget Board
Cattle Trade Report From Fort Texas Station
A fragmented Texas cattle market note references Fort Texas and a local stockyard. The readable text implies a routine exchange of cattle consignments and prices, typical of a daily rural commerce brief in regional papers.
Memories Of Harvest Days In The Wheat Belt
Washington special recalls threshing days when crews worked with steam tractors and thresher belts. Farmers remember 19th century flails, oxen on threshing floors, and the shift to horse powered, then steam and gasoline threshers and the rise of the combine in the early 20th century.
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Washington
Wheat Belt
National Geographic Society
Kansas
James Buchanan
California
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