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Vol. 33, No. 3 | Winter 2000-2001

PCCA and Partners Officially Launch Internet Cotton Trading The signing of official documents on Nov. 6 formally established a new company offering the latest Internet trading system for U.S. agricultural commodities. The new company, The Seam, now offers the world’s first, truly online cotton marketplace and is the result of a new partnership involving Plains Cotton… Read more »

Billy Eggemeyer surveyed one of his cotton fields, a 400-acre tract, in late September and estimated his yields at 2.0 to 2.5 bales per acre. Approximately 15 miles east of Eggemeyer’s farm, Wendell Jones walked through one of his cotton fields with similar yield potential. Both fields were incredible sights for an area that received… Read more »

Excited discussions of a bumper U.S. cotton crop quickly turned to worries of extensive crop abandonment this season, as weather conditions took their toll on key areas of the Cotton Belt. However, the United States did not suffer environmental adversities alone, and world production numbers also are expected to be wrenched lower due to shrinking… Read more »

Agriculture, technology and environmental caretaking were the center of attention Oct. 8 and 9 in Lubbock during Celebrating the Stewards of the Land: Sustaining Creation in the New Millennium. The conference was co-hosted by Lubbock’s Second Baptist Church and the Christian Life Commission (CLC) of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Sunday, Oct. 8, focused… Read more »

Among the important issues discussed on Oct. 8 at theCelebrating the Stewards of the Land conference was hunger relief and the South Plains Food Bank. Cloetta Shotts, director of the Land Use Division of the South Plains Food Bank, explained how the bank is going beyond just handing out food. It is working for a… Read more »

Aquaculture has developed into the fastest growing segment of U.S. agriculture in recent years. Defined as the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, crustacea, etc., aquaculture was practiced in China as long ago as 2000 B.C. More recently, farmers in Wharton County, along the Upper Coastal Bend of Texas, have been making a… Read more »

At age 16, Bonner Cooper already has accomplished a feat unsurpassed by many people. He has exhibited Grand Champion Lambs at four major stock shows in Texas including Fort Worth, San Angelo and the Texas State Fair in 1998 and San Antonio in 2000. His 11-year-old brother, Ross, quickly is developing a taste for stock… Read more »

Although modern technology and advances have replaced antique agricultural equipment, products and services throughout the years, some communities and locales still are preserving the rich history of agriculture. Texas’ State Capitol building in Austin is just one location of a museum of farming history and preservation. The Capitol building, which first opened in 1888, included… Read more »

Phenomenal growth of the volume of South Texas cotton handled by PCCA prompted the cooperative’s board of directors to re-align Districts 10 and 11 earlier this year to ensure more equitable representation for members in those districts. Much of PCCA’s South Texas growth in recent years occurred in District 10 which encompassed the Coastal Bend,… Read more »

The gin at Fairchilds, TX, has a long and interesting history, yet it is one of the newest coop gins in the state. Located a few miles south of the city of Rosenberg along Texas’ Upper Coastal Bend, Fairchild Farmers Coop signed up to offer PCCA’s marketing services just prior to the 2000 cotton crop.… Read more »