• By Denise Attaway •
Most cotton seeds found in individual seed lots are created equally, but not every seed has an opportunity to reach its full potential. Clemson precision agriculture engineer Kendall Kirk wants to help explain why.
Kirk’s goal is...
Memories from very early childhood are often sketchy and sometimes hard to hold on to. But the ones that survive the test of time will probably stay with us forever. I remember a flying toy — not an airplane...
A reoccurring topic in regional meetings across the Cotton Belt in 2018 has been contamination — in the field, in gins, in bales, and ultimately in textile manufacturing.
Unfortunately, this issue doesn’t seem to be fading for the 2018-2019 growing...
Lubbock, Texas-based Lummus Corp. has appointed Russell Sutton president.
In that role, he will oversee the day-to-day operations of Lummus and its core business of cotton ginning, oilseed processing and manmade fiber machinery, along with parts and service for those...
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I was born and raised in Central Florida, and after graduating college, I did several internships with citrus growers and crop protection companies. Although I didn’t grow up on a farm, I fell in love with...
Arkansas cotton farmer Michael Mangrum is always looking for ways to do things faster and better.
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
Stories passed down by his maternal grandmother tell how his great-great grandfather and his brothers came from Oklahoma and settled...
• By Stacey Gorman,
The Cotton Board,
Director of Communications •
The Seal of Cotton has been vital in the success Cotton Incorporated has seen promoting brand awareness for cotton. Dukes Wooters, Cotton Incorporated’s first president, introduced the seal in 1973.
The...
The NCC continues to work with U.S. cotton’s supporters in the House and Senate to achieve the industry’s policy priorities in farm legislation.
The National Cotton Council (NCC) believes that House-passed farm legislation more fully addresses the U.S. cotton and...
This has been an unusual cotton-growing season with rain since the middle of May and often little time to get into the field to manage the crop. However, most growers got the weeds under control and were able to...
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension agronomists talk about this year’s RACE trials.
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Much like producers’ fields across the High Plains, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service cotton trials are seeing a significant difference in performance this year between...
The number of active cotton gins in Arkansas rose to 33 in 2017, paralleling an increase in cotton acres, according to statistics from the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
“With a recovery in cotton acres the last couple of years, Arkansas...
Can you say a building watches over a community? Well, I think it can and I know one that does.
These days in a part of Texas where most people don’t naturally think “cotton,” sits a building whose history was...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences plant breeders almost $1 million in grants this fiscal year to produce improved cotton and peanut varieties.
Searching for...
In 1983, Mississippi author Willie Morris published a collection of short stories titled “Always Stand In Against the Curve.”
The content primarily focused on small-town baseball and football and the coming of age years for a Southern teenage boy.
Being an...
Crop Production Services Has A New Name: Nutrien Ag Solutions
As of July 1, the Crop Production Services, or CPS, name will be no longer. In its place will be Nutrien Ag Solutions. The new brand name will align retail...