Careful Management Helps Offset High Fertilizer Costs ⋅ BY BONNIE COBLENTZ ⋅ MSU EXTENSION SERVICE Agricultural producers hoping for some relief from recent high fertilizer prices are not likely to find it in 2023. Brian Mills, Mississippi State University Extension Service ag economist...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Blain Pierce Pearce Consulting, LLC McGehee, Arkansas When I was a little kid, Desha County, Arkansas, was probably 90% cotton. Everything revolved around it. Three sides of my yard were cotton fields, and the cotton gin was about a...

The National Cotton Council recently conveyed to a key Senate panel its FY24 funding requests for several USDA programs important to the U.S. cotton industry. What are the major recommendations? In a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the...

In many industries, competition is an ingrained part of an entity’s culture in which a person strategizes about how to move themselves forward or upward to achieve their individual goals. The agriculture industry is more of a collaboration among...

March 31, 2023, is the deadline for U.S. cotton producers to enroll their 2022 crop in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, a voluntary initiative that provides access to more sustainably grown cotton for brands and retailers, and science based,...

⋅ BY DAVID MITCHELL ⋅ Crop and livestock farms throughout Georgia are in a perpetual exchange of ideas and innovations to solve challenges that have tangible impacts on the state’s—and the country’s—food supply. But these concerns aren’t relegated to the southeast...

The world of drones is growing more each day. Contributing to this growth, Steve Li, an Alabama Cooperative Extension System weed scientist, is holding a virtual drone end-user conference March 18-19 via Zoom. Li said there are many farmers who are...

⋅ BY TOBIE BLANCHARD ⋅ The U.S. Department of Agriculture held its Agriculture Outlook Forum Feb. 23-24 in Washington, D.C. The forum provides a forecast for the 2023 crop year. Matt Foster, LSU AgCenter state specialist for cotton, corn and grain sorghum, was...

⋅ BY MARY HIGHTOWER ⋅ Farmers must not only conserve the soil and water it has today, but it must also seed the ground for future farmers and public efforts to strengthen agriculture, speakers at the Arkansas Discovery Farms Conservation...

About 30 years ago, a 20-something city girl from Massachusetts began spending an inordinate amount of time at the Delta Research and Extension Center picking the brains of Mississippi State University’s Extension specialists. As a young agricultural journalist and...

Under the current administration, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has begun to enhance their enforcement efforts. In the fall of 2022, we saw articles explaining how OSHA is working with the Department of Justice to file criminal charges...

NORTH CAROLINA | Guy Collins As I write this Jan. 29, we are preparing for our winter cotton meeting season (aka “the BBQ circuit”), which begins next week. Thankfully, most growers are coming out of another good year for cotton with...

How One South Carolina Farmer Showed His Patriotism Through Harvest ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSOCIATE EDITOR A South Carolina farmer used his pent-up creativity in a cotton field — without relying on GPS. Scott Barfield, a Hartsville, South Carolina, farmer, works for Gill...

⋅ BY JUSTIN FREDRICKSON ⋅ CALIFORNIA FARM BUREAU To weather extended and intensifying droughts we have experienced, and that we know are likely just around the bend again, we need to seriously bulk up our capacity to better handle the periodic...

Consistency, Earliness Are Advantageous To Cotton Farmers Sometimes it’s nice to have a few years under your belt to assess if you’re actually on the right track. After all, one good year does not a good decade make. Nor does...