The Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction is accepting nominations for its annual induction ceremony, which will be held March 26, 2020, in Baton Rouge.
The nomination form can be obtained online at www.louisianaagriculturehallofdistinction.com or through any parish Louisiana State University...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
BASF recently launched an industrywide initiative – “Operation Weed Eradication” – that challenges growers and others within agriculture to take a zero-tolerance approach to ridding fields of devastating weeds.
“As an industry, we’ve talked about...
A big part of what makes West Texas one of the leading cotton-producing regions in the world is the hot, dry weather that defines the area and is ideal for encouraging cotton growth.
But that weather also can be unpredictable...
• By Yangxuan Liu •
In 2019, Georgia’s farmers planted 1.4 million acres of cotton, which is the third-highest planted acreage for the past decade, down 30,000 acres from 2018. The average cotton yield is forecast at 932 pounds per...
The annual Rolling Plains Summer Field Day, hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Vernon, is set for Sept. 24 at the agency’s Chillicothe Research Station, 1340 Farm-to-Market Road 392, Chillicothe.
The free program will begin...
When relentless spring rains pushed the planting window wide open, entomologists predicted problems for Arkansas row-crops. That has certainly proven true for the state’s late-planted cotton, soybeans and rice, said Gus Lorenz, Extension entomologist for the University of Arkansas...
Healthy soils are important for healthy crops and Clemson University researcher Rongzhong Ye says planting cover crops, especially cereal rye, can help rejuvenate South Carolina soils.
Cover crops during the off-season can help build organic carbon in the soil, Ye...
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has found southwestern cotton rust disease in fields in western and southern Gaines County and along the county line between Cochran and Hockley counties.
AgriLife Extension specialists say the severity of the disease is...
Now that sign-up for the 2018 farm law has begun, National Cotton Council staff will be conducting farm law education webinars. The dates and times (all Central) are:
Thursday, Sept. 19, 8 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 23, 8 a.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 8...
With harvest season less than a month away for some Georgia cotton farmers, knowing when to defoliate is an important decision all growers have to make, according to Mark Freeman, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension cotton agronomist.
Before cotton can...
A new viral disease of cotton found in recent years in several southeastern U.S. states has now been confirmed in Texas.
The disease, cotton blue disease, was observed recently in a cotton field in Central Texas where multiple off-type plants...
Cotton and peanut farmers and industry personnel are invited to the University of Georgia Cotton and Peanut Research Field Day, Sept. 4, on the UGA Tifton campus.
Members of the UGA cotton and peanut teams will talk about ongoing research...
Weather went from extremely wet to extremely hot and dry across most of Texas, according to the Texas State Climatologist.
Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, College Station, said the weather turned from record-breaking rainfall in the spring to being among the driest...
• By Bill Robertson •
Another challenging season is starting to wind down. While our extended planting window resulted in a widely variable crop with regard to stage of development, Mother Nature usually has a way of narrowing the gap...
• By Tyson Raper •
I’ve resisted writing this post for 5 years because I think estimating lint yield from boll counts only provides enough insight to differentiate between poor, decent and good cotton. Still, I understand the temptation to...
