MEMO: COTTON CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN KENNETT

The 2001 Missouri Cotton Production and Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday at the American Legion Building in Kennett.

Nematode testing, cotton soil research, boll weevil issues and the cotton economic outlook are among topics on the day's agenda.

Michelle Huffman, agricultural economist of the National Cotton Council, headquartered at Memphis, Tenn., will discuss cotton economy at 11:3 a.m.

Dr. Allen Warther, a plant pathologist at UM-C Delta Center in Portageville, will open the program at 9 a.m., with a discussion of nematode testing, and Dr. Ron Seward of the Southeast Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation will speak at 10:30 a.m.