Texas cotton prospects dimming
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Cotton producer Doug Hlavaty looks across his South Plains fields and sees the potential for trouble.
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Output peaked in 2006 and will fall 7% a year while a decline in gas, coal and uranium is also predicted.
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The rapidly developing economies in Asia mean fewer rice paddies.
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Growing capacity could break the heart of ethanol investors.
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Industry talk over the potential sale of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer might have subsided in recent weeks.
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Â· More digestible feedstuff reduces production of gasÂ· Farmers could switch to different grass varieties
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Turnover decreased by 5.2pc on the year in the six month period, primarily due to lower sales in the Agricultural and other trading sector.
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Texas power producer TXU Corp. TXU.N  posted a quarterly loss, weighed down by restructuring charges  on Wednesday, but forecast growth in 2005 and 2006, propelling  its share price to an all-time high.
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FARMERS recovering from the drought of 2002-03 have received some good news and bad: the value of crop and livestock exports is forecast to rise but the price of wool is set to fall.
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By Wagner, Matthew Kaiser, Ronald; Kreuter, Urs; Wilkins, Neal  ABSTRACT: As nearly all of Texas' rural lands are privately owned, landowner associations for the management of white-tailed deer and ground-water have become increasingly popular.
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By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Feb. 9--Local anglers might have to cut their daily catches of spotted seatrout in half if new state regulations pass this year.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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The agricultural operator's shortfall? Taxes.
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The cotton industry is concerned about the discovery of a herbicide-resistant weed that spreads easily, can grow an inch a day even during droughts and could force farmers to return to older growing methods that were harsher on the environment.
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The most severe drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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A move to end subsidies and offer a buyout will aid big growers and cause smaller ones to give up their fields.
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Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice.