Guy Collins
North Carolina
As I write this June 30, I think everyone is very thankful for recent rains across most of the state. We went into this year in a moisture deficit, starting back in March and April, and we...
Ben McKnight
TEXAS
As I write this in early July, cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is progressing with recent hot and dry weather, with some fields approaching 30% open boll. By the time you are reading this, cotton harvest...
Camp Hand
GEORGIA
As we enter August, trips across the field with a sprayer are regular occurrences. Whether it is boron, a plant growth regulator, an insecticide for stinkbugs, plant bugs, or, heaven forbid, the “j-word” (aka jassid), spraying cotton in...
Josh Lee
ALABAMA
As the crop enters August, there are numerous management decisions that have already been made by this point, but we are not yet at the finish line. At the time I’m writing this article, it is raining...
Ken Legé
TEXAS
Cotton growing conditions across much of the Texas High Plains and Southern High Plains have been favorable to date, supported by timely and widely distributed rainfall events coupled with relatively moderate summer temperatures. Unlike many recent seasons characterized...
Randy Norton
ARIZONA
As of early July, the 2026 Arizona cotton crop ranges from early bloom in the higher elevations of the state to fields approaching cutout in the extreme low deserts of southwestern Arizona. The warm, late winter and early...
Zachary Treadway
ARKANSAS
It’s hard to believe we are already in July, but here we are, just after America’s semi quincentennial, and we are well on our way to making a cotton crop. We are now in the dog days of...
DANIEL RADFORD
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
Cotton growers across the Southeast know no two seasons are alike, and rainfall has always been one of the most unpredictable variables in cotton production. Periods of drought followed by heavy rainfall are making it difficult for...
MARY HIGHTOWER
JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
For Tina Gray Teague, it all started with ladybugs.
“My earliest memories are on my family’s cotton farm in Caraway,” she said. “Out on the farm, I was fascinated with ladybugs, and I collected jars and jars of them.
“When I...
SEBE BROWN
JACKSON, TENNESSEE
Plant bug numbers are increasing across the landscape, and squaring applications are right around the corner. Silking corn, blooming soybeans, and flowering weeds all contribute to large increases in plant bug populations that eventually move into both...
NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
The National Cotton Council (NCC) welcomes the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee’s release of a Farm Bill 2.0 discussion draft and urges strong bipartisan support for this proposal as it advances through the Senate.
"We appreciate...
Global 2026/27 Cotton Ending Stocks Projected Lowest in 8 Years
LESLIE MEYER AND TAYLOR DEW
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton projections for 2026/27 (August–July) world ending stocks is 71.1 million bales, a 7-percent (5.5-million-bale) decrease from 2025/26...
Contact: Vanessa Beeson
STARKVILLE Mississippi
Cotton is the world’s leading source of natural textile fiber, but much of its genetic history remains a mystery. Mississippi State scientists are part of an international team investigating when and where cotton was first domesticated....
COTTON INCORPORATED
CARY, NORTH CAROLINA
As awareness of microplastics continues to grow among consumers, brands and retailers, Cotton Incorporated is expanding its efforts this July to educate the textile industry and consumers about the benefits of natural fibers and the role...
ANA MORALES-ONA SMITH, DR. GERSON DRESCHER, DR. TRENT ROBERTS AND DR. ZACH TREADWAY
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
Quick Takeaways
On Potassium (K) deficient soils, unfertilized cotton may produce only 35% to 79% of its potential yield.
K deficiencies can reduce yield before visual...
