Another Mid-South Farm and Gin Show is in the history book, and congratulations are in order to Show Manager Tim Price and all parties for making it such a productive event after 61 years. Yeah, that’s right. This...
Recently, I made a quick trip to Lubbock, Texas, for a Water/Weed Summit sponsored by Monsanto and Deltapine, and one image remains etched in my memory during a three-day visit. Even though this is the middle of winter,...
Recently, I made a quick trip to Lubbock, Texas, for a Water/Weed Summit sponsored by Monsanto and Deltapine, and one image remains etched in my memory during a three-day visit. Even though this is the middle of winter,...
For more than a decade, I’ve had the opportunity to interview the Cotton Consultant of the Year winner each year, and it’s a job that I never get tired of. This award, co-sponsored by Cotton Farming and Syngenta,...
We are now just about a month away from heading to San Antonio for the annual Beltwide Cotton Conferences, which will be conducted on Jan. 7-10 at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel. You’ll have to excuse me if I sound...
By Tommy Horton
Editor
If any young farmer ever needed a mentor for the right way to produce a cotton crop every year, he couldn’t find a better role model than Gene Ogden of Waverly, La.
This 70-year-old farmer has delivered his...
If you hang around long enough in the cotton industry, you see a lot of people change careers, retire or pass away. It’s a fact of life, but it doesn’t make it any easier when the event happens. Such...
I will probably sound somewhat repetitious in sharing my thoughts about the failure of Congress to pass a Farm Bill this fall. It seems that everyone in the media and out on the turnrow is saying the same thing...
A few weeks ago, I had a chance to go on a trip to North Dakota, and I learned a very valuable lesson about agriculture. No matter where you travel in this country, farmers can strike up a conversation...
How bad is the drought affecting such a large portion of the country? Well, when you see that it is one of the lead items on NBC-TV’s Evening News, it hits home. But when the story originates just a...
Is it remotely possible that the House and Senate can find consensus and deliver a Farm Bill that President Obama will sign into law this year? If that happens, some serious credit will have to be given to...
Have you ever wondered how the world's cotton leaders really feel about the United States? We know that the global ag arena is competitive, and nobody needs to be reminded of the challenges that have confronted the U.S. cotton...
Earlier this month, agriculture lost one of its best goodwill ambassadors, and for those of us in the ag media business, we lost a dear friend. Stewart Doan, senior editor for Agri-Pulse Communications, was an Arkansas farm broadcaster who...
Earlier this month, agriculture lost one of its best goodwill ambassadors, and for those of us in the ag media business, we lost a dear friend. Stewart Doan, senior editor for Agri-Pulse Communications, was a farm broadcaster who seemed...
