Friday, January 11, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Governor's A (Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center)
Cotton Economics and Marketing - Friday Morning Session
Presiding:	Jeff Johnson, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock, TX
Organizer:	Phillip N. Johnson, Agricultural & Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
8:00 AM			Welcoming Remarks
8:01 AM			Whole Farm Return for Narrow Spindle Picker Row Patterns in a Non-Irrigated Environment; Final Report Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation N.W. Buehring1, Stan R. Spurlock2, M. H. Willcutt2, R.R. Dobbs3 and M.P. Harrison1, (1)North Mississippi Research and Extension Center, Verona, MS, (2)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, (3)Mississippi State University, Verona, MS
8:15 AM			Energy Analysis of Cotton Production on the Southern High Plains of Texas Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation Justin Andrew Weinheimer and Phillip N. Johnson, Agricultural & Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
8:30 AM			Picker versus Stripper Harvesters on the High Plains of Texas Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation William Brock Faulkner and Bryan W. Shaw, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
8:45 AM			On-Board Module Builders and Precision Agriculture: Information Technology from Cotton Fields to Cotton Gins to Cotton Warehouses and Back Again  Terry Griffin, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR and Stephen Slinsky, National Cotton Council, Memphis, TN
9:00 AM			Long Range Financial Impact of Alternative Cotton Harvest Methods in the Texas High Plains Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation Jay Yates, Randy Boman, Mark Kelley and Mark Brown, Texas Cooperative Extension, Lubbock, TX
9:15 AM			Sector Simulation Analysis of Georgia Cotton Production Recorded presentation Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation Archie Flanders, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
9:30 AM			Technical Change in Seed Cotton Production Recorded presentation Audio File Alejandro S. Plastina and M. Rafiq Chaudry, International Cotton Advisory Committee, Washington, DC
9:45 AM			Effects of Cotton Variety Selection and Irrigation Level on Economic Returns: Texas Southern High Plains Recorded presentation Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation Curtis Wilde1, Jeff Johnson2, J. W. Keeling2 and Phillip Johnson1, (1)Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, (2)Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Lubbock, TX
10:00 AM			Break
10:30 AM			Impacts of Row Spacing and Planting Pattern on Cotton Net Revenues Under Alternative Herbicide-Resistant Technology Fee Regimes Recorded presentation Audio File J.A. Larson1, C.O. Gwathmey2, R.K. Roberts1, L.E. Steckel2 and D.F. Mooney1, (1)The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, (2)The University of Tennessee, Jackson, TN
10:45 AM			Economic Analysis of Variable Rate Irrigation and Remote Sensing Technology in Regulating Cotton Growth Recorded presentation Audio File Presentation Amanda R. Ziehl1, W. Don Shurley1, Glen L. Ritchie2 and Lola C. Sexton2, (1)Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Tifton, GA, (2)University of Georgia Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Tifton, GA
11:00 AM			PDA and Handheld GPS Adoption in Precision Cotton Production Recorded presentation Audio File Jonathan C. Walton1, James A. Larson1, Roland K. Roberts1, Dayton M. Lambert1, Burton C. English1, Sherry L. Larkin2, Michele C. Marra3, Steven W. Martin4, Kenneth Paxton5 and Jeanne Reeves6, (1)University of Tennessee, Department of Agricultural Economics, Knoxville, TN, (2)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, (3)North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, (4)Mississippi State University, Stoneville, MS, (5)Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, (6)Cotton Incorporated, Cary, NC
11:15 AM			Discussion
11:30 AM			Business Meeting
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