As the year draws to an end, people typically sit and reflect on how their season went. “Why did we, once again, not have a ‘normal year?’ I’ve never in my life seen anything like this.”
After having experienced this...
November is a special time for everyone involved in agriculture. For the cotton folks, harvest is over or winding down, and the crop is waiting its turn at the gin to be processed. Hopefully, everyone had a successful year...
“The Magic of Belle Isle” is a movie that explores the role of imagination as a novelist mentors — through example — a young girl who is curious about how to come up with ideas. He tells her, “Never...
Anyone who works in agriculture knows weather is an uncontrollable factor farmers face while trying to produce their crop. A weather pattern described as a “perfect storm” is defined by the Collins Dictionary as a combination of events or...
Duck hunting is a revered tradition and rite of passage in the Mississippi Delta. My son grew up listening to his dad and his friends talk about everything involved with “the hunt.” Although you may not realize it, kids...
For many years, producers have looked for innovative, efficient ways to irrigate their crops and bring land that was historically dry into productive parcels to provide food and fiber to the world. According to the Smithsonian magazine, “By the...
During the heat of the production season, early risers and late nighters aptly describes the nature of a crop consultant. Their day typically begins before sunup as they head out to the field to start work at first light....
When it comes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Endangered Species Act compliance plan, it’s not a good idea to ignore it or toss it in the trash. It has serious implications for agriculture.
According to the Weed Science Society...
In many industries, competition is an ingrained part of an entity’s culture in which a person strategizes about how to move themselves forward or upward to achieve their individual goals. The agriculture industry is more of a collaboration among...
Growing up in a small Louisiana town, I remember March was the month that sat on the winter side of spring. It was the time of year when you had to stick your head outside in the morning to...
The Mid-South Farm and Gin Show is celebrating its 71st anniversary in 2023. I don’t remember the beginning of the show, but I recall walking the aisles for many years at different stages of my life. As a kid...
In football, “icing the kicker” is a ploy the opposing teams’ coaches have used for years in clutch field goal situations. It involves calling a time out either before the kicking team sets up, right after they set up...
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or most of my childhood, I grew up about 10 miles west of Vidalia, Louisiana, where the Mississippi River bridge crossed over to Natchez, Mississippi. But when I was about 2 years old, we actually lived in Vidalia for...
Spending the early morning hours out on a cotton farm or in university or industry test plots is a time for reflection, for watching. By definition, observation is the process of observing something carefully to gain information.
Observing different cotton...
Fall has arrived, and it’s cotton pickin’ time. In the My Turn column that appears each month on the back page of Cotton Farming, the authors — our readers — often wax nostalgic as they recall personal cotton pickin’...
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