⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ SOUTHEAST EDITOR After being behind much of the season in growing degree days, conditions in late July and August allowed the cotton crop to catch up in many areas of Georgia.  “Between severe weather, plant bug problems...

The National Cotton Council is urging its members to use industry approved module wrap products to help achieve zero contamination of seed cotton and lint. Is there a module wrap standard? The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) developed...

Anyone who works in agriculture knows weather is an uncontrollable factor farmers face while trying to produce their crop. A weather pattern described as a “perfect storm” is defined by the Collins Dictionary as a combination of events or...

Nufarm’s Credit® K6 Herbicide has been approved for Enlist One® tank mix. Credit K6 is a potassium salt (“K-salt”) glyphosate with a high load of active ingredient and advantages including excellent formulation stability and very low viscosity, meaning that it...

⋅ BY TYSON RAPER ⋅ Cotton & Small Grains Specialist August has turned wet, and while I generally like rain through July and August, we could now tolerate a few dry, clear days. Much of our canopy has remained wet over...

BASF has received key import approvals for its newest cotton innovations, Axant™ Flex Herbicide Tolerance Technology and Axant Flex TwinLink® Plus Insect Control Technologies. This was the final step needed to support planting of Axant Flex Cotton in the U.S.,...

⋅ BY ROBERT NATHAN GREGORY ⋅ MSU EXTENSION SERVICE Row crop growers interested in the latest updates in cotton variety research and testing are encouraged to attend the 2023 Mississippi State University Cotton Agronomy Field Day August 24. The MSU Extension Service...

⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR Paul and Linda Freund Farms hosted Bayer’s 2023 Needville, Texas, field day June 13. Tour stops and discussions included Dekalb corn and sorghum products and testing information, a new technology update on VT4Pro and...

ARIZONA | Randy Norton In last month’s comments, I had discussed how our spring and early summer had been significantly milder than in recent years. Well… that has all changed. Beginning in early July, the normal summer heat began to develop with...

Mepiquat Provides Crop Management Benefits To Cotton Farmers  Since the 1980s, plant growth regulators — PGRs — have played an important role in achieving a successful, efficient and more profitable cotton crop. Cotton experts from different areas of the Cotton...

Members Of NCC’s 2023 Emerging Leaders Program Receive Training Twelve U.S. cotton industry members were chosen for the National Cotton Council’s 2023 Emerging Leaders Program. Representing many of the industry’s segments were: PRODUCERS – Trey Beyer, Portland, Texas; Ryan Johnson, Wilmot,...

Seeking Links Between Tillage, Carbon Sinks, Yield Potential ⋅ BY JOHN LOVETT ⋅ UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE As much as the Mississippi Delta has been farmed, the impact that agronomic practices such as cover crops, carbon sequestration, reduced tillage...

If you’re a farmer or work in the ag industry at all, you don’t need to be told  the mental struggle is real. It’s not a surprise to many of us why this is a topic the health care...

Relentlessly Informing The Public On Agricultural Practices ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR Krista Huss never expected she would be sharing the story of agriculture to all who would listen. Upon marrying a fourth-generation farmer, Matt Huss, that would all soon...

An Industry That Never Stops Spinning Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the forest because all the trees are getting in the way. The same could be said for the complexity of the journey of a cottonseed from pre-emergence...