Georgia Cotton Experts Offer Tips To Optimize Planter Efficiency
⋅ BY WES PORTER AND SIMER VIRK ⋅
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Editor’s Note: To achieve a healthy stand of cotton, it’s important to properly prepare your planter. Drs. Wes Porter and Simer Virk,...
Texas A&M AgriLife, Southern Rolling Plains Cotton Growers Association Team Up
⋅ BY SUSAN HIMES ⋅
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE
An alignment of the right land and the right team in place is leading to creating an agricultural research “field of dreams.”
When agronomist...
The National Cotton Council has conveyed its FY25 agricultural appropriations request for several programs critical to the success of the U.S. cotton industry.
What are the major recommendations?
Our request to House and Senate appropriations committee’s agriculture subcommittees seeks funding across...
Growing a cotton crop, much like preparing for a big game in sports, requires having a well thought out game plan to achieve a successful outcome. As the King said in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, the best way...
⋅ BY V. TODD MILLER ⋅
A national group of scientists — including two from the LSU AgCenter — has released the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool, or FRST, a decision aid providing an unbiased, science-based interpretation of soil test phosphorus...
⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅
The Cotton Research Station at Marianna may bear Lon Mann’s name, but the place belonged to Claude Kennedy.
“He loved his station. It was personal for him,” said Chuck Culver, director of external relations for the...
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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...
Although I’m too young to join the Coke Club, I had a delightful visit with those fellows one Friday afternoon. Ten were present for the full session. Two others stopped by.
Earlier that day, I’d asked Cecil McGraw when James...
Wes Morgan, a veteran North Carolina ginner who has provided outstanding service and leadership to the U.S. cotton industry, is the 2023 Horace Hayden National Cotton Ginner of the Year. He was recognized at the recent 2024 National Cotton...
⋅ BY DREW VIGUET ⋅
What’s next for users and makers of crop protection products in a post-dicamba, pro-Endangered Species Act environment? That’s among the questions to be answered at the 11th Annual Mid-South Agricultural & Environmental Law Conference on June...
MISSISSIPPI | Brian Pieralisi
Establishing a cotton stand can be tricky. Given the current time of year, I will give an analogy that compares college baseball to healthy cotton stand establishment. Here it goes: in baseball, it all begins with planning...
Auburn Celebrates 100 Years Of Extension Cotton Entomologists
⋅ BY RON SMITH ⋅
AUBURN UNIVERSITY
On Sept. 1, 1924, Mr. Jerry Ruffin was hired by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, now Auburn University, as the first full time Extension cotton entomologist. Prior to...
ABWEF To Award Rebate To Cotton Farmers
The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted Feb. 7 to authorize the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for reported 2023 cotton acres registered with...
⋅ BY JULIE TOMASCIK ⋅
Lower Rio Grande Valley farmers are close to running out of irrigation water, a situation that studies show could have major impacts on agricultural production and jobs in the area.
Texas Farm Bureau state directors toured the Valley...
Are They Right For You And Your Operation?
Editor’s Note — Hunter Frame, Virginia cotton specialist and Tidewater Agricultural Research and Extension Center field crop agronomist, recently sat down with associate editor Cassidy Nemec to discuss the benefits, challenges and...
