Column Archives

• 2012
  • Acreage Projections Reflect Regional Concerns (January)
• 2011
  • From This Little Piggy to Big Bad Wolf (July)
  • 2012 Farm Bill Slow to Take Shape (June)
  • Can We Laugh Out Loud Again? (May)
  • Volatile Markets are Here (April)
  • Champagne or Beer? (February)
  • Looking Ahead by Looking Back (January)
  • Explosions and Implosions (January)
• 2010
  • Dollar Cotton for How Long? (December)
  • Election Night Could Mean Trouble for Cotton's Interests (November)
  • A Tale of Two Bull Markets (September)
  • Have Cotton Prices Really Reached a 15-Year High? (September)
  • Facing a Difficult November (July)
  • So What Now? (July)
  • Expect the Best, Prepare for the Worst (July)
  • Yes, We Were Too Low...And Happy To Be (June)
  • The Wonders of Cotton (June)
  • Is There Really No Cotton Available? (June)
  • Lincoln Slides Through This Round, but Can She Do it Again? (June)
  • Under Armour Finally Comes Around (June)
  • Sports Analogy for Market Reality (May)
  • May Issue Has Something for Everyone (April)
  • U.S. Cotton is Back in Play (April)
  • News and Notes From Here, There and Everywhere (April)
  • Help Us Help You (April)
  • No Surprises from the USDA (March)
  • Lincoln Loses in a Landslide? (March)
  • Buckle Your Seatbelts (March)
  • Lincoln's Predicament: How Did We Get Here? (March)
  • Acreage Projections Keep Getting Better (February)
  • Feeling Better About 2010 (February)
  • Site-Specific Nematode Control (February)
  • Don't Give Pigweed The Light Of Day (February)
  • A Prettier Picture Than '09 (February)
  • Crescent City Hope (February)
  • 2009 Cotton Marketer of the Year (February)
  • Is Our Survey Low Again? (January)
  • Deltapine Class of '10 (January)
  • Cotton Commitment Begins at Home (January)
• 2009
  • Adelgids, Coeds, Disaster Relief (December)
  • Gentlemen, Start Your Engines (December)
  • Painting a New Profit Picture (December)
  • A Quick Question for You (December)
  • A Mayor Who Gets It (November)
  • Companies Flex Regional Muscles (November)
  • ‘Can’t’ is Not A Word (November)
  • Prices Creep Upwards as Acreage Survey Begins (November)
  • Football is Just a Game (October)
  • What Moves Will China Make? (October)
  • I've been around the block, but ... Never Around The World (September)
  • Yowza! Yowza! Yowza! Yet Another Block Buster (September)
  • Direction of the Ginning Industry (September)
  • SDI in the Mid-South? (September)
  • Social Networking and an $8 Cell Phone (September)
  • Sustainability Equals Survival (August)
  • 2010: Year of the Rebound? (August)
  • Keeping Up with Cotton's Prices (August)
  • Welcome Back, Little Boy (July)
  • A Rising China Floats All Boats (July)
  • Mad Dogs, Englishmen and Editors Go Out into the Mid-Day Sun (July)
  • UAB Medical Research has Worked Before (June)
  • A Taste of Things Domestic (May)
  • As Long as the Trend is Up, I'll be Patient (May)
  • Will Next Year Finally Be the "Next Year" We've Been Talking About? (April)
  • 2008: A Rough Year for Cotton Merchants (April)
  • Way More than Just a 'Farm' Bill (April)
  • Happy to Split My Shorts (April)
  • Vampires in Congress. Roaches in My Kitchen. (March)
  • The Farm Bill: Safe for Now (March)
  • Getting Well ... But With Some Nasty Medicine (March)
  • Does it Bear Repeating? (February)
  • 2009 Beltwide Cotton Conferences (February)
  • Taking a Bath on Cotton? (January)
  • It Was No Accident (January)
  • A Higher Power (January)
• 2008
  • Just the Same, but Different (July)
  • Old Crop, New Crop (June)
  • Notable Quotes...And a milkshake cup full of them. (May)
  • Mama Made Me (April)
  • Click-Clack. (March)
  • Foxtrotting For Fertilizer (February)
• 2007
  • A Reason To Hope (December)
  • I Listen - Honest, I do (November)
  • Will They Miss You? (September)
  • Numbers Never Lie (July)
  • As We Write A New Farm Bill, Will Kooks Rule? (June)
  • Sometimes, I Get It Right (May)
  • Ask The Answer Man (April)
  • Things I Thought, Read or Heard - And Maybe Something I Made Up. (March)
  • Us Against The World And Us Against Us? (February)
  • Corn Crashes Cotton's Party? (January)
• 2006
  • The Winds Are Blowing - But In What Direction? (December)
  • First, The Seed (November)
  • A 50/50 Proposition (November)
  • The greatest hits of...The Summer of 2006 (September)