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No crop reports Friday, says USDA

USDA's Oct. 11 crop reports on supply, demand and production have been cancelled due to the government shutdown

Elton Robinson 1, Editor

October 8, 2013

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<p> Louisiana corn farmers are beginning the 2013 harvest.</p>

USDA’s Crop Production report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates for Friday, Oct. 11, have been cancelled due to the government shutdown, according to USDA.

USDA spokeswoman Courtney Rowe, said the reports would not be produced and did not say when the reports may be released. Surveys crucial to the report should have begun in early October, but were not due to the shutdown which started Oct. 1.

All Web sites at usda.gov are currently shuttered. Archived statistical information on commodities is available here.

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The Ag Market Network will still hold its monthly conference call, Oct. 14, 7:30 a.m., Central time. John Robinson, Extension economist at Texas A&M University will discuss cotton marketing and will be joined by a cotton marketing panel. You can listen live over the Internet at www.AgMarketNetwork.com.

 

About the Author

Elton Robinson 1

Editor, Delta Farm Press

Elton joined Delta Farm Press in March 1993, and was named editor of the publication in July 1997. He writes about agriculture-related issues for cotton, corn, soybean, rice and wheat producers in west Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and southeast Missouri. Elton worked as editor of a weekly community newspaper and wrote for a monthly cotton magazine prior to Delta Farm Press. Elton and his wife, Stephony, live in Atoka, Tenn., 30 miles north of Memphis. They have three grown sons, Ryan Robinson, Nick Gatlin and Will Gatlin.

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