Farmers have several options for managing residue: Fire, flood and tillage, or some combination of the three. Use of each depends on what the production system used in the current season, the weather after harvest and what crop a...
PhytoGen W3E1 Varieties Will Be Available for the 2023 Season
PhytoGen® cottonseed, the U.S. cottonseed brand of Corteva Agriscience, today announced a new transgenic trait package, W3E1, for the 2023 season.
The W3E1 trait package combines the Enlist® cotton trait and WideStrike® 3 Insect Protection, giving cotton...
⋅ By Bruno P. Lena, Brenda V. Ortiz, Luan Pereira de Oliveira, Guilherme Morata, Mailson Freire de Oliveira, Franciele Morlin, Alvaro Sanz-Saez, Pierce McClendon, Megan Thurmond, and Yin Bao ⋅
Efforts to put digital technologies and site-specific crop management practices...
⋅ ROBERT BRANAN ⋅
Please join this series of webinars on September 7, 14 and 21 at 12:30 p.m. for an update on conservation easements and their potential impact on land disposition (e.g. estate planning and farm succession decisions). Robert...
⋅ By Mary Hightower ⋅
The United States is expected to harvest its lowest number of cotton acres since the 19th century, according to an estimate from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“USDA projected this year's harvested acres at 7.13 million,” said...
Scotty Raines didn’t grow up on a farm, but his father kept a large garden at home. His mother, a beautician, had a beauty shop behind their house. So Scotty began his agrarian career by selling produce from the...
Betty Allen Farms in Latta, South Carolina, has been in Keith Allen’s family for nearly 200 proverbial lean and fat years. Growing from a modest holding in 1837 to 3800 acres today, the farm has experienced everything from near...
Early summer across the Cotton Belt often means weed and disease pressure, but it also signals that coveted first cotton bale of the season.
This year Wesley Vanderpool in Alamo, Texas, harvested that first bale June 23 at 1,989 lbs...
By Yangxuan Liu •
The cotton futures market experienced its selloff since June 17, 2022, creating concerns among cotton producers about this year’s profitability.
For example, December 2022 Cotton Future prices dropped from around 120 cents per pound to around...
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol was accepted as an ISEAL Community Member following a rigorous and meticulous approval process and only eighteen months after the program’s launch.
ISEAL is a global membership organization that supports credited sustainability systems in their...
Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever are proud to announce BASF Agricultural Solutions as the organization’s newest national sponsor in the precision agriculture and conservation sector. The organizations are poised to deliver new on-farm sustainability program in the Texas Panhandle.
Collaborating...
Trust Protocol participating producers will find the new streamlined enrollment for the 2022-2024 crops easy and quick. Production data, which remains confidential, now can be more efficiently uploaded into the Protocol platform, thus paving the way for a potential...
Judd Hill event focuses on production tactics and values beyond the field.
June 13, 2022
⋅ By Mary Hightower ⋅
A June 22 field day at the Judd Hill Foundation Farm near Trumann, will feature discussions on why sustainability is important not only...
Texas A&M continues to lead in preparing agriculture teachers amidst shortage
By Blair Fannin •
Agriculture teachers are in high demand as a number of contributing factors are making it difficult to fill positions in classrooms across Texas and abroad, according...
BASF welcomed 51 farms to the FiberMax One Ton Club following the 2021 growing season, continuing its long-standing tradition of celebrating cotton farmers’ impressive yield achievements. The farm with the highest yield in 2021 went well beyond the club’s...
