Friday, June 26, 2026

TCGA Cotton Trade Show Connects Ginners From Across The Belt

The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association hosted visitors from several cotton-growing areas during its annual meeting and cotton trade show in Lubbock this year. In recapping the event, the organization made the following comments: “For our 116th gin show, we reached out...

2024 Planting Progress

ALABAMA | Steve M. Brown Dry weather — prolonged dry weather — scares me. I recall a summer that the “spigot” shut off, and I thought it would never rain again. It finally did so… when I was at a Friday...

Collaboration Embraces Winter Canola

Program Creates New Revenue Stream Opportunity For Farmers ⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅ EDITOR To give farmers an opportunity to boost their income and reduce fossil fuels and carbon emissions, Corteva Agriscience, Bunge and Chevron U.S.A. initiated a unique Winter Canola Program...

Promoting Whole Cottonseed As Cattle Feed

Cotton growers and dairy farmers alike know the value of cotton lies not only in its textile uses but also in its byproduct, whole cottonseed. Cotton Incorporated’s Cottonseed Research and Marketing program works to maximize cotton-grower profit from whole...

Sharing Stories Through The Lens

How An Outside Perspective Helps Connect Others To Agriculture ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR It was not until Jack Gjesvold was a senior in high school that he stepped foot onto a farm. Today, just having wrapped up his sophomore...

Industry News: June 2024

NCC Statement On Farm Bill House Legislation Released The National Cotton Council applauds House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson for producing a Farm Bill that significantly increases the support levels for cotton producers, who have been weighed down by...

Public Information And The Variability Of U.S. Cotton Production Forecasts

⋅ BY JOHN ROBINSON ⋅ Texas A&M AgriLife Extension During April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service announced the suspension of selected statistical reports and processes, including the annual objective yield sampling effort for U.S. cotton. The latter...

Proven To Perform

The National Cotton Council is actively encouraging its members to adopt industry-approved module wrap products to reduce contamination of both seed cotton and lint. What is the module wrap standard? In early 2022, the approval and publication of the American...

The Pleasure And Reward Of ‘Picking Pecans’

When I was a little girl, my dad picked up an extra piece of ground in East-Central Louisiana. It was good land and well suited for cotton. But what suited me most about it were the three big pecan...

NCC Statement on Farm Bill House Legislation 

The National Cotton Council applauds House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “G.T.” Thompson for producing a Farm Bill that significantly increases the support levels for cotton producers who have been weighed down by the recent rise in on-farm production costs. This...

Will dicamba be usable in 2025?

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ Time is not on dicamba’s side. Following an Arizona federal court ruling that vacated the label in February, users of dicamba herbicides are waiting to see what happens now that a new registration for over-the-top use...

The 2024 Syngenta Pest Patrol Program Is Now Underway

WHAT: The 2024 Syngenta Pest Patrol program is designed to equip growers with timely alerts so they can protect their crops against potential pest threats. The alerts come from a team of local university partners and Syngenta representatives across the Mid-South...

EPA Proposes to Cancel All but One Use of Pesticide Acephate to Protect Human Health

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing a proposed interim decision (PID) to cancel all but one use of the pesticide acephate. This decision is based on EPA's updated human health draft risk assessment (HH DRA) and...

Texas Cotton — 10 Generations Of Trotters

Our family’s roots run deep in farming, specifically cotton. For some, “farming” may just be a word, but for 10 generations, it has been a lifestyle for the Trotter family. My name is Nancy Willingham Trotter. I was born in...

TCGA/Texas Tech Scholarship Fund Helps Grow Cotton Industry’s Future

Cotton Farming magazine, co-sponsor of the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association Gin Show recently contributed $3,676 to the TCGA/Texas Tech Scholarship Fund. TCGA Executive Vice President J. Kelley Green, right, and TCGA President Mike Thompson, left, accept the check from One...

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