By Carroll Smith / Contributing Editor
Jeff Hux, who was recognized as Cotton Farmer of the Year at the 29th Annual National Cotton & Rice Conference, farms in the unique agricultural area known as the Missouri Bootheel in the northern...
Guy Collins and Keith Edmisten
The NCDA & CS Cotton Seed Quality Testing Program continues to serve as a valuable tool for growers. The number of low quality seed lots or stop sales have historically been very low and infrequent,...
Specialists Speaking
Ken Legé
TEXAS
While it is typical for the High Plains to have very little to no precipitation during late winter to early spring, the low, stagnant commodity price for cotton accentuates the need to scrutinize every input going into...
Specialists Speaking
Tyson Raper
TENNESSEE
As I write this on the tenth of March, our plan for this season is still quite fluid. The conversation may have flipped again by the time you read this, but there is currently a hint of excitement...
Karn Dhingra / Communications Specialist / Texas A&M University
Texas Crop and Weather Report
Texas row crop producers are heading into planting season amid early weather uncertainty, shifting price relationships in major commodities, and ongoing economic pressure from high input costs,...
By Grant Saum, Mid-South Regional Communications Manager, The Cotton Board
Across the Mid-South, Cotton Incorporated continues to invest in the future of cotton through its Agricultural and Environmental Research Division, funding projects that directly impact grower profitability and sustainability.
Through two...
At times, when our senses are heightened, we have a strong feeling we have experienced something before. It’s not exactly déjà vu because déjà vu has been described as an uncanny feeling that something is familiar when it’s not....
All of us at Cotton Farming would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the My Turn column through the years. Many of our readers have told us it’s one of their favorite pages in the magazine.
As we embark...
The 72nd Mid-South Farm and Gin Show is scheduled for March 1-2, at the Renasant Convention Center, Memphis, Tennessee. Exhibitors from across the United States will display cutting-edge machinery and equipment, technology and new products and services, representing all...
The Cotton Board wants to see your best, calendar-worthy cotton photos. One winning photo will be selected and featured in The Cotton Board’s 2024 Industry Calendar.
“We are looking for creative, captivating images of cotton in any stage of production...
The U.S. ginning industry is addressing a myriad of ongoing issues from safety to contamination to labor and climate change.
The National Cotton Ginners Association recently concluded its first in-person ginner schools since 2019 with the three schools attracting 320...
Why should you study history? According to the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Because history gives us the tools to analyze and explain problems in the past, it positions us to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible...
Keep An Eye Out For The “Odd Balls” That May Threaten Young Cotton
⋅ BY SCOTT GRAHAM ⋅
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
One of the challenges of cotton insect pest management is also one of the things that makes it exciting: no two seasons...
In late June, the Commodity Commission Ex Officio Committee met to make appointments to the Georgia Cotton Commission Board of Directors. GCC Chairman Bart Davis, a cotton, peanut, corn and cattle farmer from Doerun, Georgia, was reappointed to another...
Stewart Named Director Of UT’s West Tennesse Ag Center
An entomologist well known to row crop producers throughout the South, Scott D. Stewart has been named the director of the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Jackson, Tennessee. Stewart,...
