Consultants Corner

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Greg Smith Buffalo Island Crop Services Lake City, Arkansas Both sides of my family always farmed cotton. It’s all I have ever known. Last year, the cotton crop got off to a good start although we did have a...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Rogers Leonard, Ph.D. Tensas Parish, Louisiana I worked for over 40 years with LSU AgCenter and retired in 2020 as associate vice president of the ag research and extension programs. I was then approached by a group of...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Kirk Palmer M&M Crop Specialties New Madrid, Missouri During college, I started scouting cotton as an intern for a local retailer who had hired a consultant. After I graduated, they hired me to consult on their cotton acres for...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Corey Cotton Cotton Ag Services Albany, Georgia When I was 13 years old, my dad — who also is a consultant — started taking me to the field to scout cotton, which was his biggest crop. Later on, I...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Andy Graves Graves Agronomy Service Inc. Clarksdale, Mississippi I grew up working with my dad on the farm and at his retail, fertilizer and commercial application business. When I went to college, I checked cotton and rice with a...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Blain Pierce Pearce Consulting, LLC McGehee, Arkansas When I was a little kid, Desha County, Arkansas, was probably 90% cotton. Everything revolved around it. Three sides of my yard were cotton fields, and the cotton gin was about a...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Trey Bullock Bullock's Ag Consulting Hattiesburg, Mississippi I grew up in Greenwood in the heart of the Mississippi Delta where I worked for consultant Jim McCrory every summer in high school and through college. After graduating, I had an...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • James “Wish” Patterson James A. Patterson Consulting Pickens, Arkansas I grew up in an agricultural community in southeast Arkansas where my uncle had a farm with cotton in the mix. Later, while I was working as an assistant coach,...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Joel Moor Moor Ag Services LLC Greenwood, Mississippi I am a sixth-generation farmer whose family has been growing cotton on our home place in Leflore County, Mississippi, since the 1850s. We always take our photos on a cotton module,...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Chuck Farr Mid-South Agriculture Consultants Crawfordsville, Arkansas Growing up in Crittendon County, Arkansas, I’ve always been intrigued by cotton. My dad and grandfather both farmed, and my dad also wound up teaching vocational agriculture for 35 years. Every year,...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Hayes Girod Girod Consulting Services Flora, Mississippi Cotton is like a wild ride you must manage intensely all season long. In the end, if you take care of it, it will take care of you. Cotton is one of...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Ashley Peters Peters Crop Consulting Crowville, Louisiana I grew up in Franklin Parish where my father farmed for about 40 years. Cotton was our predominant crop, so I had a lot of experience plowing, planting, spraying, hoeing and...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Growing up in Jonesville, Louisiana, I developed an interest in agriculture. When I was 17 years old, I met cotton consultant Roger Carter literally on the turnrow. I did a two-year summer internship with him while...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • I grew up in Manila, Arkansas, surrounded by agriculture in the northeast corner of the state. I started scouting for the University of Arkansas Extension Service when I was 16 and worked for them all the...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Adam Hixson Technical Service Representative, BASF Lubbock, Texas I grew up in central Texas surrounded by agriculture. While attending Texas A&M University, I was a scout for the county Extension agent one summer. I learned what it took to...