Controlling Cotton Weeds With A Zero-Tolerance Approach. ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSISTANT EDITOR As a member of Operation Weed Eradication (OWE), BASF is partnering with many in the agricultural industry to help bring solutions to persistent weeds found in row crops. OWE’s...

U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol Doubles Grower Participation The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol announced that grower participation for the 2021/22 crop doubled since the program’s pilot last year. The Trust Protocol’s mission is to bring quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement...

Fifty Years Of Evolution In Cotton Insect Control — 1971-2021. ⋅ BY RON SMITH ⋅ AUBURN UNIVERSITY It has been quite a journey to have been a part of the most evolutionary period in cotton insects. I began my career as part...

Cotton Incorporated’s Blue Jeans Go Green denim recycling program has been around since 2006, offering consumers a way to give their old denim new life by transforming it into something new. Since the program’s inception, more than four million...

Producer participation in the voluntary U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol sustainability initiative should keep growing with a streamlined enrollment process.  Why is participation important? To help with a two-prong vision: 1) setting a new standard in sustainable U.S. cotton production via continuous...

Why should you study history? According to the Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Because history gives us the tools to analyze and explain problems in the past, it positions us to see patterns that might otherwise be invisible...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Trey Bullock Bullock's Ag Consulting Hattiesburg, Mississippi I grew up in Greenwood in the heart of the Mississippi Delta where I worked for consultant Jim McCrory every summer in high school and through college. After graduating, I had an...

Texas A&M continues to lead in preparing agriculture teachers amidst shortage By Blair Fannin • Agriculture teachers are in high demand as a number of contributing factors are making it difficult to fill positions in classrooms across Texas and abroad, according...

A photo wouldn’t have done it justice, but I wish I’d tried. It was an ominous cloud, massive and peculiarly long. I left the farm just after midday on March 18 and headed toward home, going west on the Pinehurst-Hawkinsville...

Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau outreach director, sat down with Kelci Morrow Murphree (her niece by marriage) to talk about the cotton ginning link in the cotton supply chain.  Armed with her business management degree from Arizona State University, Kelci...

FiberMax One Ton Club Celebrates 17 Years BASF welcomed 51 farms to the FiberMax One Ton Club following the 2021 growing season.  Chase and Maegan Bubenik of San Angelo, Texas, were the winners of the 2021 FiberMax One Ton Club drawing...

ARIZONA | Randy Norton Nearly all the 2022 crop is in the ground with some of the earliest planted cotton in the western reaches of the state nearing first bloom. However, most of the crop across Arizona is not even to...

Tucker Miller has a list of row crop producers who depend on him to manage insects in their fields, and every year brings a different pest challenge that threatens crop profitability. Miller, an independent crop consultant with Miller Entomological Service...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • James “Wish” Patterson James A. Patterson Consulting Pickens, Arkansas I grew up in an agricultural community in southeast Arkansas where my uncle had a farm with cotton in the mix. Later, while I was working as an assistant coach,...

As the nation enters the upcoming growing season, the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) is asking all drones-unmanned aircraft (UA) operators to be mindful of low-altitude manned agricultural aircraft operations. Agricultural aviators treat 127 million acres of cropland in the...