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Program Creates New Revenue Stream Opportunity For Farmers ⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅ EDITOR To give farmers an opportunity to boost their income and reduce fossil fuels and carbon emissions, Corteva Agriscience, Bunge and Chevron U.S.A. initiated a unique Winter Canola Program...

⋅ BY JOHN ROBINSON ⋅ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension During April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the suspension of selected statistical reports and processes, including the annual objective yield sampling effort for U.S. cotton. The latter...

⋅ BY DRS. SCOTT GRAHAM AND RON SMITH ⋅ Following are comments related to key pests and considerations for Integrated Pest Management in Alabama this year. Key Pests ■ Grasshoppers. Grasshoppers tend to be worse in lighter, well-drained soils and following dry winters...

⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR Finding the right timing when it comes to cotton weed management can be tricky. Weather, soil type and many other environmental factors come into play. Kaelin Saul, BASF technical service representative for Louisiana and...

⋅ BY JULIE MURPHREE ⋅ ARIZONA FARM BUREAU When you hear him speak on soil, it’s not so much like a lecture though he’s been a professor teaching at the University of Arizona for decades. Instead, you hear a passion about...

Texas A&M AgriLife, Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association Team Up ⋅ BY SUSAN HIMES ⋅ TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE An alignment of the right land and the right team in place is leading to creating an agricultural research “field of dreams.” When agronomist...

⋅ BY DREW VIGUET ⋅ What’s next for users and makers of crop protection products in a post-dicamba, pro-Endangered Species Act environment? That’s among the questions to be answered at the 11th Annual Mid-South Agricultural & Environmental Law Conference on June...

Auburn Celebrates 100 Years Of Extension Cotton Entomologists ⋅ BY RON SMITH ⋅ AUBURN UNIVERSITY On Sept. 1, 1924, Mr. Jerry Ruffin was hired by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, as the first full time Extension cotton entomologist. Prior to...

⋅ BY JULIE TOMASCIK ⋅ Lower Rio Grande Valley farmers are close to running out of irrigation water, a situation that studies show could have major impacts on agricultural production and jobs in the area. Texas Farm Bureau state directors toured the Valley...

⋅ BY MIKE WADE ⋅ Water, the essence of life, is an indispensable resource intricately woven into the fabric of our daily existence. From the food on our plates to the gadgets in our hands, water silently plays a pivotal...

⋅ BY ROBERT NATHAN GREGORY ⋅ MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY Producers should anticipate tighter profit margins in 2024 as agricultural commodity prices decrease and financing costs climb. However, experts expect the industry to be buoyed by its economic strength, which has grown...

The Georgia Cotton Commission’s Trustees’ Awards were presented at the 2024 Georgia Cotton Commission annual meeting Jan. 31 in Tifton. The Trustees’ Awards are awarded to individuals who have dedicated themselves to the advancement of the cotton industry in...

Eric Bell grew up on his family’s cattle farm in Carroll County near Huntingdon, Tennessee, where they raised corn and hay, which was fed back to the livestock. From 1985 to 1989, cotton started its comeback in the area....

Expanded Outreach Aims To Include Gins And Visitors From All Across The Cotton Belt The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association will host its 116th gin show April 4-5 in Lubbock at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Aaron Nelsen, TCGA special projects...

⋅ BY JULIE MURPHREE ⋅ Arizona Farm Bureau Strategic Communications While cotton’s footprint in Arizona has shrunk in terms of acres planted (in earlier decades as much as 500,000 to 600,000 acres of cotton in Arizona were planted), the story of...