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Deltapine Kicks Off NPE Program’s 17th Season Five Bollgard 3 ThryvOn cotton with XtendFlex Technology (B3TXF) and four Bollgard 3 XtendFlex (B3XF) cotton variety candidates will be evaluated by New Product Evaluators growers this seasonfor the Class of ’25. The lineup...

MSU Extension Shares Research On High-Speed Planting ⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅ EDITOR The MAFES Black Belt Branch Experiment Station in Brooksville, Mississippi, was the site of an inaugural field day hosted by Mississippi State University Extension featuring high-speed planting and advanced...

Program Creates New Revenue Stream Opportunity For Farmers ⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅ EDITOR To give farmers an opportunity to boost their income and reduce fossil fuels and carbon emissions, Corteva Agriscience, Bunge and Chevron U.S.A. initiated a unique Winter Canola Program...

How An Outside Perspective Helps Connect Others To Agriculture ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR It was not until Jack Gjesvold was a senior in high school that he stepped foot onto a farm. Today, just having wrapped up his sophomore...

NCC Statement On Farm Bill House Legislation Released The National Cotton Council applauds House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson for producing a Farm Bill that significantly increases the support levels for cotton producers, who have been weighed down by...

⋅ BY JOHN ROBINSON ⋅ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension During April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the suspension of selected statistical reports and processes, including the annual objective yield sampling effort for U.S. cotton. The latter...

⋅ BY DRS. SCOTT GRAHAM AND RON SMITH ⋅ Following are comments related to key pests and considerations for Integrated Pest Management in Alabama this year. Key Pests ■ Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers tend to be worse in lighter, well-drained soils and following dry winters...

⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR Finding the right timing when it comes to cotton weed management can be tricky. Weather, soil type and many other environmental factors come into play. Kaelin Saul, BASF technical service representative for Louisiana and...

⋅ BY JULIE MURPHREE ⋅ ARIZONA FARM BUREAU When you hear him speak on soil, it’s not so much like a lecture though he’s been a professor teaching at the University of Arizona for decades. Instead, you hear a passion about...

Fertilization Tool Digitizes Crop Nutrient Management A national group of scientists has released the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool, or FRST, a decision aid providing an unbiased, science-based interpretation of soil test phosphorus and potassium values for fertilization. The FRST project is...

Texas A&M AgriLife, Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association Team Up ⋅ BY SUSAN HIMES ⋅ TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE An alignment of the right land and the right team in place is leading to creating an agricultural research “field of dreams.” When agronomist...

⋅ BY DREW VIGUET ⋅ What’s next for users and makers of crop protection products in a post-dicamba, pro-Endangered Species Act environment? That’s among the questions to be answered at the 11th Annual Mid-South Agricultural & Environmental Law Conference on June...

Auburn Celebrates 100 Years Of Extension Cotton Entomologists ⋅ BY RON SMITH ⋅ AUBURN UNIVERSITY On Sept. 1, 1924, Mr. Jerry Ruffin was hired by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, as the first full time Extension cotton entomologist. Prior to...

ABWEF To Award Rebate To Cotton Farmers The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted Feb. 7 to authorize the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for reported 2023 cotton acres registered with...

⋅ BY JULIE TOMASCIK ⋅ Lower Rio Grande Valley farmers are close to running out of irrigation water, a situation that studies show could have major impacts on agricultural production and jobs in the area. Texas Farm Bureau state directors toured the Valley...