Camp Hand
GEORGIA
As June arrives, cotton growers are typically crossing key milestones. Planting is largely complete, the thrips window has closed in our region, and many early season pest management decisions are already in the rearview mirror. While some later-planted...
Tyson Raper
TENNESSEE
Our spring began far warmer than normal, with a mid-April planting window that enticed several into planting big portions of their cotton acres. The first of May brought what we are hoping will be our one-and-only blackberry winter for...
Texas A&M AgriLife partners with Coastal Bend cotton producers on digital agriculture project
Cotton producers working with Texas A&M AgriLife Research will use and help evaluate new digital tools that simulate and predict real-world crop production scenarios. (Michael Miller/Texas A&M...
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...
