For many or most growers across North Carolina, 2021 will be a year to remember for quite a while. It is very rare that high prices, timely rains throughout the summer, avoidance of tropical storms or prolonged cloudy/wet weather...
• By Bonnie Coblentz •
High commodity prices in 2021 pushed Mississippi agriculture to a sharp increase in total value — a record estimated $8.33 billion — despite a huge decline in government assistance aimed at coronavirus relief.
Agriculture’s estimated value...
There was good news and bad news at the 6th Annual South Carolina Ag Outlook Conference. The good news: sale prices for commodities are trending up. Unfortunately, so are the costs associated with producing them.
Walt Morgan, crop insurance agent...
• By Fred Miller •
Unpredictable and spotty weather left some Arkansas cotton fields a soggy mess while other areas saw record yields in 2021.
“Arkansas cotton yielded an average 1,287 pounds of lint per acre according to the latest estimates,”...
Conditions are drying around much of Texas, and forecasts call for winter weather to be warmer and drier than average.
Commodity producers in much of the state, including the High Plains, experienced a banner year in 2021 due to high...
BASF has introduced Axant Flex herbicide trait technology, designed to help growers get the upper hand on herbicide-resistant weeds
This quadruple-trait herbicide stack provides tolerance to Alite 27 herbicide, BASF’s latest herbicide for cotton. It contains the active ingredient, isoxaflutole,...
The Deltapine New Product Evaluator Program recently completed its 14th season with an in-person summit to launch the Deltapine brand Class of ’22 cotton varieties. These were proven by NPE growers for top end-performance potential.
“The previous two classes of...
The Cobb/Lyerly/Owens Partnership in Lake City in Craighead County is the 2021 Arkansas Farm Family of the Year. The honor was announced recently at a luncheon in North Little Rock honoring the county and district Farm Families of the...
PhytoGen cottonseed, Corteva Agriscience's U.S. cottonseed brand, powers up for 2022 with its highest-yielding portfolio of Upland varieties yet. After consistently showing exponential yield increases in on-farm trials across the Cotton Belt, the company released PhytoGen brand PHY 411...
Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service’s efforts to help Arkansas growers succeed from field prep to harvest, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022.
Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and...
Conditions are drying around much of Texas, and forecasts are calling for winter weather to be warmer and drier than average.
Commodity producers in much of the state, including the High Plains, experienced a banner year in 2021. That was...
Alabama producers can brush up on best management practices and prepare for the upcoming growing seasons at the 2022 Alabama Row Crops Short Course. The course will be held Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Embassy...
Syngenta Crop Protection has trademarked a new insecticide active ingredient, Plinazolin technology, for launch in the coming years. It contains the active ingredient isocycloseram, a member of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee’s Group 30.
This group of insecticides is known...
Texas Tech's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources honored three leaders with the Gerald W. Thomas Outstanding Agriculturalist Awards recently during the 94th annual CASNR Pig Roast at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. The Pig Roast also celebrates...
• By Brad Buck •
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, data derived from farms might be more valuable than the crops growers produce. That’s because farmers can make money from their data when companies use it for other...
