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  Josh Lee I think country singer and Alabamian Riley Green sang it best: “I wish the price of gas was low and cotton was high.” This has been the anthem on repeat for cotton prices in the 2025 season. Despite...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Greg Smith Buffalo Island Crop Services Lake City, Arkansas Both sides of my family always farmed cotton. It’s all I have ever known. Last year, the cotton crop got off to a good start although we did have a...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ L ike many farmers, Jonathan Bobbitt continually looks for ways he can save time and streamline his operation. He’s open to new ideas, especially if they can make cotton management easier and improve yield potential. That curiosity led...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Cotton-and-peanut producers continually look for new ways to maximize efficiencies while growing two high-value crops that compete for time and resources. As growers finalize planting decisions for 2025, many have turned to PhytoGen® brand varieties because of...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Austin Warbington grows a mix of cotton, peanuts and corn — but he considers himself a cotton grower, just like his father and grandfather. Cotton is a part of who they are, and it’s the lifeblood...

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⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Simplified weed management next year begins with an important decision in the off-season. For cotton producers in peanut country, you can streamline your operation by choosing cottonseed that is the perfect peanut partner. PhytoGen® W3FE varieties offer...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Rogers Leonard, Ph.D. Tensas Parish, Louisiana I worked for over 40 years with LSU AgCenter and retired in 2020 as associate vice president of the ag research and extension programs. I was then approached by a group of...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Kirk Palmer M&M Crop Specialties New Madrid, Missouri During college, I started scouting cotton as an intern for a local retailer who had hired a consultant. After I graduated, they hired me to consult on their cotton acres for...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Jim McArthur farms about 80 miles from the beach in Malone, Florida, but many of his fields have a lot in common with the dunes at Destin or Panama City. The deep sand where McArthur farms can...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Bob Griffin Griffin Ag-Consulting Jonesboro, Arkansas In high school, I started out as a cotton scout for the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service and continued scouting for two summers while in college at the U of A. At...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ Producers across the southern U.S. are switching to cotton varieties that better fit their peanut rotation, making a change that has improved management and increased cotton yield potential. Travis Mixon farms cotton and peanuts with his father,...

⋅ SPONSORED CONTENT ⋅ For farmers planting cotton near peanuts, one simple change makes management a whole lot easier. Throughout the South, cotton and peanuts are a common rotation with fields planted near one another — sometimes across the turnrow....

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Andy Graves Graves Agronomy Service Inc. Clarksdale, Mississippi I grew up working with my dad on the farm and at his retail, fertilizer and commercial application business. When I went to college, I checked cotton and rice with a...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Blain Pierce Pearce Consulting, LLC McGehee, Arkansas When I was a little kid, Desha County, Arkansas, was probably 90% cotton. Everything revolved around it. Three sides of my yard were cotton fields, and the cotton gin was about a...