The Cotton Companion
By Jim Steadman
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The Cotton Companion podcast is a conversation among the editors and friends of Cotton Grower magazine about all things cotton related.
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How to Handle the Tarnished Plant Bug in 2026
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May 27, 2026 |
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Cotton’s Weather Market Has the Bulls on Parade
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May 07, 2026 |
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How the Strait of Hormuz Impacts Your Operating Margins
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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What We Know About the DOJ’s Fertilizer Investigation
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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North Carolina Producer David Dunlow Tabbed for 2026 Cotton Achievement Award
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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Talking BACA with Congressman Greg Murphy
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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9 Million Acres? A Look at the NCC’s Numbers for 2026
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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A Closer Look at the New Dicamba Label
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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The Buying American Cotton Act Advances on Capitol Hill
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Everything You Need to Know About the Cotton Jassid for 2026
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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The Cotton Market Has 99 Problems but Tariffs Aren’t One
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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What USDA’s $12 Billion Relief Package Means for Cotton
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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How Cotton Incorporated is Taking the Fight to Polyester on the Retail Shelf
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Will Cotton Break Out of It’s Narrow Trading Window in 2026?
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Celebrating Our 200th Episode...and Jay Mahaffey, Too!
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Plant Not Plastic: Cotton Takes On Microplastics and Polyester
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Cotton Promotion Program Evolving for a Changed World
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Talking Mid-South Cotton, Early Harvest, and Pests Old and New
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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49 Meetings, 16 States, 6 Weeks
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Dr. Bill's Harvest Preparation Checklist
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Dissecting the Newly Proposed Dicamba Label and Next Actions
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Reviewing Cotton's Current Research Programs and Priorities
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Examining the Big Beautiful Benefits for Cotton
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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What's New in Cotton's Ag Tech Pipeline?
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Have Environmentalists Damaged Cotton Demand?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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West Texas Focus With an Eye on DC
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May 28, 2025 |
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Meet CCI's Liz Hershfield
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May 14, 2025 |
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How Are Tariffs Impacting Cotton Movement and Trade?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Ignore the Noise Around Tariffs, Focus Instead on Fundamentals
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Button Up Farm Finances As Planting Nears
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Celebrating Cotton Achievement Award Recipient Ted Schneider
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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Observations from the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Cotton's Agenda and New Leadership for 2025
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Oh Deer! Tracking Cotton's Latest Big Pest.
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Cotton's 2025 Outlook for the U.S., the World...and California
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Cotton's New Year: What's Happened, What's New and What's Next for 2025?
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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How Did Ag Retailers Stack Up in 2024?
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Cotton Companion: Discussing Cotton's Fortunes for 2025
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Cotton Companion: Beltwide Cotton Conferences Ready to Kick Off 2025
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Time to Focus on Cover Crops
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Weathering Multiple Storms
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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When Will We See a New Farm Bill?
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Setting the Record Straight on Cotton Promotion
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Making Sense of Cotton's Volatile Year
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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West Texas Optimism
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Slumping Prices and the Million Acre Surprise
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Weed Control's Latest Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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How Banned Cotton Still Muddies Cotton's Supply Chain Transparency
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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ACSA's 100 Years Serving U.S. Cotton
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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Looking at Precision Ag Adoption in Cotton
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May 22, 2024 |
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Riding Cotton's Price Roller Coaster - Again
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May 08, 2024 |
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Findings from Cotton's Antique Alley
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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Spotlight on the Cotton Foundation
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Adjusting to New EPA Adjustments
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Honoring 2023 Cotton Achievement Award Recipient Bart Davis
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Facing Cotton's New and Continuing Challenges
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Meet the 2023 Cotton Marketer of the Year
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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New Ag Tech in the Palm of Your Hand
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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Acreage Projections, Award Winners, and Hot Cotton Headlines
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Wrapping Up 2023; Looking Ahead to 2024
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Never Slowing Down
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Sliding Into 2024?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Finding New Life and New Uses for Old Cotton
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Examining Soil Health’s Value to Cotton
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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How Unprecedented Politics Could Impact a New Farm Bill
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Positive First Impressions
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Heat, Hurricanes and Four-Legged Pests
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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August Puts the Heat on Cotton
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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What’s In the Climate Smart Cotton Program for You?
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Looking at Cotton From Down Under
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Tracking This Season’s Weed Challenges
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Bulls, Bears and Texas Cotton
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Navigating Cotton’s Crazy Market
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May 24, 2023 |
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2023 Planting: A Grower’s Perspective
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May 10, 2023 |
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New Technology and Cotton Production
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Unpacking the Current Cotton Market
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Humble Advice for U.S. Cotton
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Building Trust in the Protocol Process
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Lone Star Leadership for the NCC
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Is Cotton a Convenient Scapegoat for Supply Chain Woes?
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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2023 Cotton Outlook: ”Live” from the Beltwide Cotton Conferences
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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Starting 2023 with an Award and a Cotton Acreage Projection
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Wrapping Up 2022: New Varieties and a 2023 Market Preview
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Deciphering Regulatory Challenges Impacting Cotton
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Getting a Mid-South Report
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Cotton’s Tricks and Treats for 2022
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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What’s Bugging Cotton?
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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During a Drought, Farming Simple is Simply Better
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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Milestones, Markets...and Some Maybes for 2023
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Cotton?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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How Soil Health Programs Benefit Cotton Growers
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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What’s Next After Cotton’s Price Adjustment
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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How Cotton Incorporated Keeps Your Cotton in High Demand
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Fighting the Weed Battles
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Making Sense of Today’s Volatile Market
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Celebrating 100 Years of Stoneville
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May 25, 2022 |
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Live from the Turnrow
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May 11, 2022 |
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Talking Cotton Technologies and Other Cool Stuff
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Farm Bill Time Already?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Tracking Wins and Watchouts
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Dancing Cotton’s One Step, Two Step Tango
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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What’s New at NCC? And What’s Up with Glyphosate?
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Selling Sustainability to Cotton’s Downstream Audiences
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Cotton Is NOT the Enemy
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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What’s Up for Cotton in 2022?
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Sifting Through the Supply Chain Rumors
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Giving Thanks for Cotton
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Moving Cotton in a Dollar Cotton World
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Talking Honors and Market Outlook
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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The Pros - and Cons - of Dollar Cotton
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Manage Risks, Protect Profits
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Don‘t Get Fired Up
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Feeding Demand for U.S. Cotton
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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The New Product Episode
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Reflecting on 100 Episodes and Prospects for Dollar Cotton
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Taking a Broad Look at Cotton Research
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Weeds, More Weeds...and Metabolic Resistance?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Weather Questions? Let's Ask Mike.
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
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May 25, 2021 |
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Watching Markets as Planters Roll
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May 12, 2021 |
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From Cotton Scrubs to Cotton Planting
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Here to There: Today's Challenges in Moving Cotton
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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How Will Changes in Washington Impact Cotton?
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Good Guys Without White Hats
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Deep Freeze and West Texas Cotton
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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We've Got an (Ag) App for That
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Early Season Marketing 101: Time to Pay Attention
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Prognostications and Presentations
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Bidding Goodbye to 2020
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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A Panel's Perspective on Dicamba and 2021 Weed Control
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Giving Thanks for the Season - and a Few Good Stories
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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What's Next for Cotton Post-Election?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Documenting the Beauty of Cotton
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Sorting Through the Cotton Market Madness
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Keeping U.S. Cotton Contamination-Free
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Talking Weather, Hurricanes and Drunk Donkeys
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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The Market's on a Run; Catch It While You Can
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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No Pandemic Slowdown for the Business of Cotton
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Taking the Long and Winding Road
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Spanning the Cotton Belt for Hot News Items; Trying to Make Sense of the Market
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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Dicamba Saga Continues; Traits Paying Off in Nematode Battles
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Dissecting Cotton's Dicamba Dilemma
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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More COVID-19 Relief...and Making Early Planting Pay Off
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May 27, 2020 |
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#2020Planting Is On!
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May 13, 2020 |
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More COVID-19 Relief for Cotton Growers - And a Looney Tunes Prophecy?
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Apr 21, 2020 |
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Uncle Sam CARES for Cotton?
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Apr 07, 2020 |
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Cotton and COVID-19
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Coronavirus and 2020 Cotton Pricing
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Episode 66 – Acreage Projections and MFP Rumblings
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Episode 65 – All We Need is Just a Little Patience
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Episode 64 – Third Tranche Waiting Game
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Episode 63 – Cotton Acreage and the Young Bull Market
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Episode 62 – Trade Deal Season
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Episode 61 – Closing Out 2019 Harvest
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Episode 60 – MFP and A Rare Sighting of Market Bulls
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Episode 59 – Harvest Season Heads for the Home Stretch
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Episode 58 – Harvest Helpin’
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Episode 57 – The Louisiana Fashion Episode
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Episode 56 – Texas Two Step
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Episode 55 – Dorian, Defoliation and Cover Crop Timing
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Episode 54 – Putting Lipstick on the Cotton Price Pig
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Episode 53 – U.S. Cotton’s Global Competition
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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Episode 52 – Market Facilitation Payments!
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Episode 51 – Cottonseed Advancements; First Bale Here Already
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Episode 50 – Real. Comfortable. Wrangler (and U.S. Cotton).
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Episode 49 – Disaster Relief and the Personal Side of the Trade War
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Jun 12, 2019 |
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Episode 48 – Trade Wars and the Market Facilitation Program
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May 29, 2019 |
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Episode 47 – #Plant19 Progress and Forces Impacting Prices
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May 15, 2019 |
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Episode 46 – Cleveland On the Cotton Market; Cotton Sustainability in 2019
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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Episode 45 – Three Crop Protection Tips; Nicosia on 2019 Pricing and Fundamentals
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Episode 44 – Nicosia On Rising Competition from Brazil
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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Episode 43 – Nicosia Takes Stock of the Market
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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Episode 42 – 2019 State of Cotton
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Episode 41 – How the Trade War Could Impact Prices for Years to Come
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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Episode 40 – Six Tips to Consider Before #Plant19
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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Episode 39 – Government Shutdown on the Farm; 2019 Acreage Projection
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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Episode 38 – China’s Soybean Pump Fake
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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Episode 37 – How to Shelter Yourself from the Trade Wars
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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Episode 36 – Movement on the Farm Bill!
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Episode 35 – USDA Tamps Down U.S. Cotton Production Estimates
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Episode 34 – Forces Shaping the Cotton Market at Harvest Time
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Episode 33 – Cotton and the Chinese Trade Dispute
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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Episode 32 – Conaway and Perdue Weigh In On the Farm Bill
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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Episode 31 – Dicamba Developments and Hurricanes vs USDA
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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Episode 30 – Market Surprises and Dicamba Findings
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Aug 18, 2017 |
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Episode 29 – Cotton Calls on Trump for Help; States Regulate Dicamba
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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Episode 28 – Dicamba Updates and USDA Acreage Report
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Jul 15, 2017 |
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Episode 27 – Dicamba in the Mid-South and Beyond
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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Episode 26 – Are Prices Surging Too Quickly?
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May 23, 2017 |
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Episode 25 – Industry Reacts to EPA’s XtendiMax Ruling
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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Episode 24 – Dicamba Registration Finally Comes Through
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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Episode 23 – What does Bayer-Monsanto Mean for U.S. Cotton?
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Episode 22 – How Should You Respond to this Market Movement?
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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Episode 21 – The Cotton Market Shows Signs of Life!
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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Episode 20 – USDA Acreage Report and PGR BMPs
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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Episode 19 – Ginning Cost Sharing is Ginning Cost Caring
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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Episode 18 – Another Potential Merger Pops Up
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May 26, 2016 |
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Episode 17 – The #Plant16 Episode
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May 06, 2016 |
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Episode 16 – Cotton’s Politics
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Apr 22, 2016 |
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Episode 15 – On Raging Against the Machine
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Mar 24, 2016 |