Specialists Speaking - Dr. KEN LEGE TEXAS
Stand establishment is a challenge no matter where you are in the U.S. cotton belt, but since West Texas’ most limiting resource is water, achieving a healthy stand can make or break the...
Specialists Speaking - KEITH EDMISTEN NORTH CAROLINA
The warm weather predicted this week (April 13) sure makes one feel like planting some cotton. However, looking at the forecast for the following week tempers my enthusiasm, especially the low nighttime temperature...
Specialists Speaking - JOSH LEE ALABAMA
Achieving a good stand of cotton is one of the first steps of the cotton-growing process that is visible above ground. Evaluating a stand of cotton is almost like getting your grades back on...
Specialists Speaking - CAMP HAND GEORGIA
One of the things on the forefront of everyone’s mind in Georgia is how dry we have been since last October. Just looking at a couple of locations on the University of Georgia Weather...
Specialists Speaking – BRIAN PIERALISI MISSISSIPPI
It is an early spring this year. As I write this on April 13, farmers are waiting on a rain to plant… anything! In Mississippi, we haven’t had measurable rainfall in over three weeks...
Specialists Speaking - BEN MCNIGHT TEXAS
As I write this in mid-April, rainfall in varying amounts has fallen across the state, but we still have a long way to go with additional rainfall before statewide drought conditions begin to improve....
By Carroll Smith / Contributing Editor
Jeff Hux, who was recognized as Cotton Farmer of the Year at the 29th Annual National Cotton & Rice Conference, farms in the unique agricultural area known as the Missouri Bootheel in the northern...
Shelley Heinrich, Cotton Board Southern Plains Regional Communications Manager
The Cotton Research & Promotion Program, funded by U.S. cotton growers and importers, continues to invest in research aimed at improving producer profitability. One area receiving increased attention is precision agriculture...
EMILY CABRERA / TIFTON, GEORGIA
“That’s the nature of this insect,” said Phillip Roberts, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension entomologist based on the UGA Tifton campus. Within days of detection, Extension specialists were running laboratory bioassays to answer the most urgent question growers ask...
Yangxuan Liu
Cotton remains financially strained: High input costs, elevated interest rates, and weak prices have left U.S. cotton producers with ongoing negative profit margins, continuing a long-term trend of economic losses.
Global competition and oversupply dampen prices: Rising...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark
The Arkansas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation (ABWEF) board of directors voted to authorize the distribution of a $1 per acre cash rebate to growers for assessments paid on the 2025 cotton acres verified with the Arkansas Boll...
Sap, soil and tissue sampling with US cotton farmer Zeb Winslow
By Bec Sloane, US Communications Coordinator
Fifth-generation cotton producer Zeb Winslow keeps one eye on what is happening above ground, the other on what’s happening below. Based in Scotland Neck,...
DENISE ATTAWAY
CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Cotton is an essential crop for the United States economy, but traditional breeding practices have unintentionally left modern cotton varieties vulnerable to climate change.
A new study is shedding light on how to make cotton more climate-resilient...
Guy Collins and Keith Edmisten
The NCDA & CS Cotton Seed Quality Testing Program continues to serve as a valuable tool for growers. The number of low quality seed lots or stop sales have historically been very low and infrequent,...
Dr. John Robinson in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University.
It is never too early to develop a marketing plan for the upcoming crop.
Longer run price outcomes for the 2026 crop depend on expectations of supply and demand. ...
