If you are running a business, it is likely you have heard of the Employee Retention Credit (ERC). The ERC is a refundable tax credit for businesses and tax-exempt organizations that had employees during the COVID-19 pandemic and were affected...
ARIZONA | Randy Norton
During the cool winter months, with the crop harvested and out of the field, it is a good time to review the previous year and make plans for the upcoming season, which will be upon us in...
Alabama Farm Family Leads By Example On Local, State And National Levels
⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Daniel and Carla Trantham, well-known advocates for agriculture in North Alabama, have worked to pave the way for young farming families to use...
Cotton producers are marked by a never-quit-pushing mindset that searches for ways to improve on last year’s crop. Innovation begins with a look to the future and a willingness to change.
For Jeremy Wilson, striving for more led to...
In 2019, I wrote an article on the Cotton Research and Promotion Program’s work in California to identify and stop the spread of Fusarium wilt race 4 (FOV4) in Pima and Upland cotton. Substantial progress had been made in...
Expanded Outreach Aims To Include Gins And Visitors From All Across The Cotton Belt
The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association will host its 116th gin show April 4-5 in Lubbock at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. Aaron Nelsen, TCGA special projects...
As it did this past year, the National Cotton Council continues to confront challenges and seize opportunities with the aim of improving the U.S. cotton industry’s overall financial health.
Does that include farm bill passage?
Passage of an effective farm bill...
How old is cotton? I recently ran across this question that piqued my curiosity. Personally, having grown up in rural Louisiana, I was around cotton my entire life. But I knew there was more to the story than that.
While...
New W3E1 and W3FE Varieties Bring Next-level Yield Potential
PhytoGen cottonseed, the U.S. cottonseed brand of Corteva Agriscience, announces two new varieties offering producers proven, high-yield potential in key cotton-growing regions. PhytoGen brand PHY 137 W3E1 and PhytoGen brand PHY 475 W3FE will be available for the 2024...
With the launch of the Class of ’24, Deltapine brand is raising the performance potential in cotton varieties containing the newest trait protection package: Bollgard 3 ThryvOn cotton with XtendFlex Technology (B3TXF).
Announced at the annual Deltapine New Product Evaluator...
The 2024 Beltwide Cotton Conferences (BWCC) will be held at the Omni Fort Worth Jan. 3-5 in Fort Worth, Texas.
Once again, the BWCC Consultants Conference will kick off the meeting beginning noon Jan. 3 and running through noon Jan....
I grew up in a rural community east of Leland, Mississippi, that is referred to as Longswitch or sometimes Dunleith. This area is rich in farming and cultural history. Leland is home to Jim Henson and the Kermit the...
“It is not about us, it is about the industry and agriculture in general. We are not trying to promote ourselves. We are glad we are in a position to give,” said Dan Taylor, a cotton producer and current...
ALABAMA | Steve M. Brown
The world’s two oldest cotton experiments are a couple of blocks away on the Auburn campus. Yield data are determined by hand picking two rows by 10 feet, and then a one-row, tractor-mounted, 1960’s version, red...
⋅ BY JULIE MURPHREE ⋅
Arizona Farm Bureau Strategic Communications
While cotton’s footprint in Arizona has shrunk in terms of acres planted (in earlier decades as much as 500,000 to 600,000 acres of cotton in Arizona were planted), the story of...
