• By Christine Souza •
About halfway through their harvest, California cotton farmers say the market may be stabilizing amid trade challenges, water shortages and market conditions unsettled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Kern County farmer Jake Cauzza, who is growing about...
• By Darrell VandeVen •
When we started picking cotton in the fall of 2019, my brother, Donnie, and I finally faced the reality that the crop just wasn’t working for us anymore.
Our cost of production was too high, and...
• By Jeannette E. Warnert •
Consumers who purchase luxury cotton textiles want more than cool, soft, absorbent fabric. Increasingly, they demand clothing made from fiber grown using ecologically sound practices and they’re willing to pay for it, said speakers...
Across the Cotton Belt, crop rotation is a widely adopted production practice that has the potential to increase producer yields without increasing input costs.
Over the years, Cotton Incorporated has funded numerous research projects showing that crop rotation decisions can...
So far, 2020 is the year that keeps on giving. We can’t seem to catch a break, and most folks are ready to get this year behind us.
Despite all the challenges we’ve faced, we have a substantial top crop...
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson announced the implementation of the department’s new Wild Hog Control Program supported by the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation.
“We are excited to launch the first-of-its-kind state agriculture department-led invasive feral hog trapping...
• By Ana Otto •
The monarch butterfly population has declined considerably over the past several decades. Reasons for the decline are attributed to reduced breeding habitat, extreme weather and other factors related to overwintering habitat, pesticides and deforestation in...
This season’s cotton crop results are right around the corner, but growers are already eying their strategy for the 2021 growing season. Some of them already have a preliminary attack plan in their head, if not yet entirely on...
• By Amanda Huber,
Southeast Editor •
Since the cotton leaf roll dwarf virus first appeared in Alabama in 2017, it has spread to all Southern U.S. cotton states.
University of Georgia cotton virologist Sudeep Bag says that based on observations from...
• By Ross Rutherford •
Contamination in seed cotton and lint cotton has been a critical issue facing the cotton industry for decades. This has become even more urgent in recent years with the broad acceptance/usage of cotton harvesting equipment...
Remembering Jack Woolf
California Central Valley agricultural legend Jack Woolf passed away July 28 at the age of 102.
He was born Sept 6, 1917, along with his unexpected identical twin, Leyton, at the Pima Maricopa Indian Medical Clinic in Scottsdale,...
Sample Regularly To Identify Shifts In Nematode Populations, Species
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
In his book about military strategy, “The Art of War,” Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu talked of winning the battle by knowing your enemy.
The same can be...
• By David Wright,
University of Florida •
Many crop producers in the Florida Panhandle use conservation tillage when planting into winter fallow weeds or cover crops.
The University of Florida/Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences research data over the years shows...
• By Amanda Huber,
Southeast Editor •
An important economic pest in cotton is not something producers want to see in their fields at any time, especially not earlier than expected. However, that has been the case this season.
Silverleaf whitefly infestations...
• By Christi Short,
Lubbock, Texas •
If you’re anything like me, you’ve been noticing more and more people taking up the hobby of picture taking with a drone — also known as an unmanned aerial vehicle.
This method of capturing images...
