Industry News

NCC Resumes Producer Information Exchange Tours The National Cotton Council’s 2022 Producer Information Exchange program (P.I.E.) enabled Mid-South and Southeast cotton producers to see cotton and other agriculture related operations in Texas’ Lubbock and Lower Rio Grande Valley areas. West...

Among the many industry experts who are working tirelessly for cotton producers’ on-farm profitability and success are cotton breeders engaged in creating new cotton varieties for growers. New varieties go through fiber quality testing to ensure they are viable...

U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol's New Three-Year Enrollment Trust Protocol participating producers will find the new streamlined enrollment for the 2022-2024 crops easy and quick. Production data, which remains confidential, now can be more efficiently uploaded into the Protocol platform, thus...

U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol Doubles Grower Participation The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol announced that grower participation for the 2021/22 crop doubled since the program’s pilot last year. The Trust Protocol’s mission is to bring quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement...

FiberMax One Ton Club Celebrates 17 Years BASF welcomed 51 farms to the FiberMax One Ton Club following the 2021 growing season.  Chase and Maegan Bubenik of San Angelo, Texas, were the winners of the 2021 FiberMax One Ton Club drawing...

Ted Schneider To Lead National Cotton Council  Ted Schneider, a Lake Providence, Louisiana, producer, was elected National Cotton Council chairman for 2022 during the organization’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. Shawn Holladay, a Lubbock producer, was elected to the position of...

Cotton Consultant of the Year –——established 1981——– The Cotton Consultant of the Year reception was held at the Peabody Hotel, March 5, in Memphis, Tennessee. This prestigious annual award is sponsored by Syngenta and Cotton Farming magazine. James Todd of Plainview, Texas,...

U. S. Cotton Trust Protocol Enrollment Deadline Nears  Enrollment for the 2021 crop in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol is open until March 31. Producers should enroll their 2021 crop information by that deadline to be eligible for any revenue...

BASF has introduced Axant Flex herbicide trait technology, designed to help growers get the upper hand on herbicide-resistant weeds This quadruple-trait herbicide stack provides tolerance to Alite 27 herbicide, BASF’s latest herbicide for cotton. It contains the active ingredient, isoxaflutole,...

PhytoGen cottonseed, Corteva Agriscience's U.S. cottonseed brand, powers up for 2022 with its highest-yielding portfolio of Upland varieties yet. After consistently showing exponential yield increases in on-farm trials across the Cotton Belt, the company released PhytoGen brand PHY 411...

Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service’s efforts to help Arkansas growers succeed from field prep to harvest, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022. Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and...

BASF Opens Application Submissions For Cotton Clubs FiberMax and Stoneville cotton growers can now apply to join BASF’s FiberMax One Ton Club and Stoneville Legacy Club. The application deadline for the FiberMax One Ton Club is Feb. 28, 2022. Printed qualification...

Syngenta Crop Protection has trademarked a new insecticide active ingredient, Plinazolin technology, for launch in the coming years. It contains the active ingredient isocycloseram, a member of the Insecticide Resistance Action Committee’s Group 30. This group of insecticides is known...

High-Quality, Portable Gadgets Help Keep Batteries Running And Fully Charged Shell jump starters feature currents that can jump start both diesel and gas engines. They have built-in flashlights, SOS lights as well as USB ports for fast charging of mobile...

U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol 2021 Grower Enrollment Webinars The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol is holding live enrollment webinars focusing on how the program helps U.S. growers meet the changing demands from their end customer. It also assists in better documenting...