How An Alabama Father-Daughter Duo Weave Storytelling And Textiles Into Red Land Cotton
⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Mark and Anna Yeager have long made their mark on their neck of the woods in Moulton, Alabama. When Anna graduated with...
From Agronomy Student To State Cotton Specialist
⋅ BY MAGGIE BERGER ⋅
TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE
A passion for science and a drive to educate on the value of agriculture to Texas took Ben McKnight, Ph.D., from a student to a faculty member of...
Heat Stress During Arizona’s Low Desert Monsoon Season
⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅
EDITOR
From the Coolidge, Casa Grande area west is considered the low desert production region of Arizona. It typically is characterized as having an elevation lower than 2,000 feet....
⋅ 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...
