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Wet and stormy weather robbing Magnolia State cotton yields.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 29-SEP-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Wet and stormy weather robbing Magnolia State cotton yields.(Mississippi Agribusiness)

Article Excerpt
Repeated, drenching rains from storms Fay, Gustav and Ike brought Mississippi's cotton crop from an anticipated above-average yield to one that appears to be average or below.

"With cotton acres being down, we really needed to hit a home run this year to retain the acres we had and to keep all the gins and the cotton industry infrastructure," said Darrin Dodds, cotton specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service.

He said the state's cotton crop as a whole looked...

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