Arizona’s High Cotton Status May Be Worst Possible Outcome During Current Trade Wars
• By Julie Murphree •
The other day via my @CottonAggie Twitter account I reported, “Arizona farmers expect this year’s Upland cotton crop to yield an average of...
I am a third-generation farmer in Dillon, South Carolina. The farm began as a dairy and tobacco operation and remained that way until the 1980s. My father, Roy Baxley, grew the farm and converted it to all row...
Highlights Of 2019 Central Texas Field Days
• By Cassidy Nemec •
In the midst of summer field days for a variety of crops, it is clear that cotton is still king in Texas.
The Westside Row Crop Tour took place June...
A new viral disease of cotton found in recent years in several southeastern U.S. states has now been confirmed in Texas.
The disease, cotton blue disease, was observed recently in a cotton field in Central Texas where multiple off-type plants...
Cotton and peanut farmers and industry personnel are invited to the University of Georgia Cotton and Peanut Research Field Day, Sept. 4, on the UGA Tifton campus.
Members of the UGA cotton and peanut teams will talk about ongoing research...
Weather went from extremely wet to extremely hot and dry across most of Texas, according to the Texas State Climatologist.
Dr. John Nielsen-Gammon, College Station, said the weather turned from record-breaking rainfall in the spring to being among the driest...
• By Bill Robertson •
Another challenging season is starting to wind down. While our extended planting window resulted in a widely variable crop with regard to stage of development, Mother Nature usually has a way of narrowing the gap...
• By Tyson Raper •
I’ve resisted writing this post for 5 years because I think estimating lint yield from boll counts only provides enough insight to differentiate between poor, decent and good cotton. Still, I understand the temptation to...
• By Mary Jane Buerkle •
In its first official crop production estimates for the Texas High Plains this season, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service pegged the 2019 upland cotton crop at 4.93 million bales harvested...
• By Guy Collins and Keith Edmisten •
Statewide, the 2019 crop continues to be the most variable crop that we’ve seen in quite some time, primarily due to planting date, timing and duration of drought/heat stress, and spotty rains....
The Hutchinson and Hansford Cotton Production Meeting, hosted by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, will be Aug. 22 at the Adobe Walls Gin, 10175 Farm-to-Market Road 51 between Stinnett and Spearman.
The program will begin at 9:30 a.m. with registration....
The 2020 Beltwide Cotton Conferences, set for Jan. 8-10, 2020, at the JW Marriott in Austin, Texas, will update attendees on the latest research and technology.
The conferences, coordinated by the National Cotton Council, annually brings together university and U.S....
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released its August acreage report recently showing updated acreage from 14 states that were not finished planting during the agency’s initial report June 28.
The weather-related delays affected cotton planting in...
• By Lindsey Thiessen •
Cercospora leaf spot of cotton (Fig. 1), caused Cercospora gossypina (syn. Mycosphaerella gossypina), has been observed across North Carolina cotton growing regions. Foliar symptoms include reddish lesions that enlarge to have white to light brown...
