Entomologists from South Carolina, Mississippi and Texas offer an early outlook for potentially damaging cotton insect pests
By Carroll Smith
Editor
Rows of young cotton not only are a beautiful sight to behold but also an attractive buffet for insect pests in...
Monitoring cotton pest thresholds has proven to be one of the more successful tools for keeping insect pressures in check. In the West, established research-based thresholds aid in determining treatment of cotton pests. Adherence to those standards can be...
Researchers Set Their Sights On Target Spot Control, But Several Questions Remain
By Vicky Boyd
Managing Editor
Although researchers are gaining a better understanding of the fungal pathogen that causes target spot, they admit they still have a lot of unanswered...
What about world fiber consumption?
A major reason behind the decline of cotton’s share of global fiber consumption is that global synthetic fiber production capacity is three times the level of global cotton production. That helps explain why on today’s...
From planting depth to thrips control, North Carolina cotton experts designed these reminders to help you achieve optimal stands and good early season growth.
By Guy Collins
North Carolina State University
The wet and cold 2016 planting season we encountered in North...
National Prime Rib Day, National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day and National Wine Day – there is actually a national food holiday for every single day of the calendar year. To engage with consumers and take advantage of conversations happening...
I grew up in the Mississippi Delta surrounded by agriculture. While in high school, I worked on various farms and even in a cotton gin. During college, I started working with Jimmy Walker, who was an independent consultant from...
Estimated From Days Suitable For Fieldwork
By Terry W. Griffin, Ph.D., Kansas State University; Michael J. Buschermohle, Ph.D.,
University of Tennessee; and Edward M. Barnes, Ph.D., Cotton Incorporated
Editor’s Note: As Tennessee cotton specialist Tyson Raper says on page 21, the forecast...
West Tennesseans Committed To Family And Farming Cotton
By Carroll Smith
Editor
‘Farming must be sustainable, and raising cotton is how I can make that happen,” says Clinton Evans, who farms with his son, David III “Buddy,” in West Tennessee as Clinton...
By Christine Souza
California Farm Bureau Federation
To help young farmers and ranchers negotiate the financial, political and regulatory challenges that come their way, young agriculturalists met in Modesto for the 2017 California Young Farmers and Ranchers Conference.
California Farm Bureau Federation...
By Clinton Evans
Cotton farmer, Brownsville, Tenn.
I was born Nov. 14, 1959, in Haywood County, Tenn., raised on this farm and spent my childhood in Davie Place — my family’s ancestral home built in the mid-1800s by my great-great-grandfather, John...
As a general rule with a subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) system, a cotton farmer can average 4 bales of lint per acre with 4 gallons of water per-minute per-acre irrigation capacity, according to Craig Hoelscher, Eco-Drip vice president of...
Tim Roberts grew up in Southeast Arkansas where farming was prevalent and many of the local teenagers worked as cotton scouts or “bug checkers” as they were called at the time. In 1977, Arkansas cotton consultant Ken Gilbert hired...
The Cotton Board is governed by its membership, which consists of both cotton producers and cotton importers. Importers serving on The Cotton Board represent various major U.S. brands and retailers – significant downstream users of cotton. The producers serving...
TCGA Annual Meeting & Trade show
BY TONY WILLIAMS
TCGA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
As cotton planters prepare to roll across Texas, a feeling of anticipation is in the air — and for good reason.
Most areas experienced an exceptional crop in 2016,...
