Every female Palmer amaranth plant can produce over 1 million seeds that may germinate and compete with a cotton crop.
One doctoral student is taking on these weeds, which rob farmers through herbicide costs, yield damage or quality losses. Palmer...
• By Tiffany Dowell Lashmet •
Question: What statutory protections are available as a defense to a landowner if hunters are injured on my land?
Answer: With opening weekend for deer season right around the corner, this is a great and...
• By Jennifer Whitlock •
I’m a firm believer in every family owning a four-legged furry pet. They teach us so many life lessons: responsibility, unconditional forgiveness, loyalty and the joy to be found in each day.
Although we know there...
• By Sandy Steckel and Scott Stewart •
We are currently experiencing another round of fall armyworm in bermudagrass here at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Jackson, Tennessee, and this is also occurring elsewhere. We wouldn’t be...
In late June, the Commodity Commission Ex Officio Committee met to make appointments to the Georgia Cotton Commission Board of Directors. GCC Chairman Bart Davis, a cotton, peanut, corn and cattle farmer from Doerun, Georgia, was reappointed to another...
• By Sebe Brown and Tyler Towles •
With Louisiana experiencing warm days and adequate moisture, much of the cotton has grown out of the thrips susceptibility stage (one- to four-leaf cotton) and is beginning to put on squares.
Square initiation results...
This year, BASF highlighted its cotton growers in a special way. The company hosted an artwork competition with the winner being selected for the cover of the 2022 BASF Cotton Variety Catalog.
Contestants were asked to submit a photo depicting...
Texas cotton producers could have a tough year due to drought, but good prices are likely to soften the blow, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Drought and good prices will influence the final total acres of...
• By Ching Lee •
Despite mounting calls for federal maritime regulators to address congestion, delays and shipping challenges at U.S. ports, California agricultural exporters say they have yet to see any relief.
Since last fall, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association...
The cost of ginning cotton is an important concern for producers and ginners. Every three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service conducts a survey of ginning costs by region.
Data from the survey allows gin management to...
• By Dennis Pollack •
California cotton growers have often dreamed of finding themselves in tall cotton. These days, they might just find themselves in a tall cotton cover crop—as high as 5 or 6 feet, according to one expert...
• By Guy Collins and Keith Edmisten •
Fiber quality results for the 2020 North Carolina On-Farm Cotton Variety Evaluation Program are now in. In addition to yield, fiber quality is an important component to the value and marketability of...
• By Erin Kuiper •
On the western edge of Buckeye, Arizona, sits the family dairy farm where I grew up. My father Bill and mother Sine Kerr started their dairy business in 1980 at the ripe age of 18....
BASF has renewed its commitment to the cotton industry and West Texas agriculture through a long-term sponsorship of the Museum of Agriculture in Lubbock, Texas, renaming it the FiberMax Center for Discovery. The new name reflects the decade-long relationship...
Irrigation is an important tool that likely has been used in agriculture for about as long as humans have been cultivating plants, but just how much water is enough?
One project, funded by the South Carolina Legislature, is developing software...
