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,...
What a difference a few months have made for Texas High Plains agricultural producers under the financial and other strains brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“COVID-19 has definitely had a negative impact on agriculture,” said DeDe Jones, Texas A&M...
Milan No-Till Field Day Goes Virtual For 2020
The first Milan No-Till Field Day was held in 1981 in Milan, Tennessee, when the idea of “parking the plow” was a foreign concept to most of the state’s cotton farmers. For...
Kent Fountain, a Surrency, Georgia, ginner was elected National Cotton Council chairman for 2020 during the NCC’s 2020 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. He succeeds Mike Tate, a cotton producer from Huntsville, Alabama.
A member of the NCC’s 2001-2002...
• By Amanda Huber, Southeast Editor •
Cover crops improve soil quality and provide benefits that help create a more sustainable production system for cash crops. Selecting a cover crop depends on the benefits the producer needs.
Audrey Gamble, Auburn University...
New Web-Based Tool Analyzes Aerial Data And Imagery
Adama Eagle Eye powered by Agremo offers an advanced analysis of aerial data and imagery that helps growers protect yields more efficiently through user-friendly maps, statistics and other tools.
Insights from this web-based...
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