Specialists Speaking
Tyson Raper / TENNESSEE
The 2025 variety testing data from Tennessee was released immediately after Christmas and you can find that report on news.utcrops.com. While we were able to achieve higher-than-average yields in two locations (Grand Junction and Ridgely), most of...
Specialists Speaking
Ken Legé / TEXAS
West Texas growers are somewhat optimistic after having an above-average year in 2025 with good yields and very good fiber quality. That optimism unfortunately wanes because of commodity prices. Regardless, it is time to begin...
Specialists Speaking
Camp Hand / GEORGIA
Going into 2026, my entire county meeting presentation has to do with variety selection. In a year where all growers in my neck of the woods want to talk about is the “J-word” (jassids), why...
Specialists Speaking
Ben McKnight / TEXAS
Looking forward to the 2026 growing season, perhaps the most important decision growers will make about next year’s crop is the varieties they will plant and manage for the remainder of the season. With so...
• By Amanda Huber,
Southeast Editor •
This year can hardly be described as “normal” by any sense of the word. Therefore, it is no surprise that weather has been variable as well. Early season temperatures were at or below normal,...
In the arid regions of the desert Southwest, water is by far the most limiting resource for crop production systems. As such, it is an extremely valuable resource to producers and an incentive to conserve and use with utmost...
John Deere, Case IH Show Off New Products At The World Ag Expo
Designed With Efficiency In Mind
BY VICKY BOYD
MANAGING EDITOR
With acre upon acre of outdoor and indoor exhibits, the World Ag Expo near Tulare, California, offers growers three days...
The 2019 Georgia Quality Cotton Awards were presented recently at the Georgia Cotton Commission’s 13th Annual Meeting and University of Georgia Cotton Production Workshop in Tifton. The awards are co-sponsored by the Georgia Cotton Commission and BASF and administered...
U.S.-China Phase 1 Implementation And Coronavirus Bring New Uncertainties
National Cotton Council economists point to a few key factors that will shape the U.S. cotton industry’s 2020 economic outlook.
This past year can be characterized as a year with significant uncertainty...
Richard L. (Ricky) Clarke III, a merchant from Cordova, Tennessee, will serve as president of Cotton Council International (CCI) for 2020. CCI is the National Cotton Council’s export promotion arm and carries out programs in more than 50 countries...
Water wells are a tricky business. From the moment a well is drilled, it’s generally designed to “run to failure” much akin to “planned obsolesce” on a cell phone. Even some well rehabilitation efforts often operate on the same...
In 2018, the state began spending greenhouse gas reduction fund money from the Cap and Trade Program on the Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions Program.
The FARMER Program was designed to mirror the state’s existing Carl Moyer Program...
State Cotton Farmers Compete For National Title
In 2010, Preston and Kendall Jimmerson were pondering their future. Preston was a four-year insurance agent with Lee County, Georgia, Farm Bureau. But farm life had caught his attention.
Kendall grew up on Moss...
The Pampa, Texas, Facility Was Built To Gin 150,000 Bales Per Year.
Over the past two decades, cotton acreage has expanded significantly into the Texas Panhandle. Corn has historically been a mainstay crop in this area, but diminishing irrigation capacity...
Study Variety Performance, Management Requirements And Soil Data When Making 2020 Cropping Choices
• By Bob Hutmacher,
University of California •
High production costs and lower-than-desired commodity prices mean that good choices are even more important in planning for your 2020 crop.
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