The National Cotton Council’s FY23 federal agriculture appropriations request would support important activities ranging from pest management research to export promotion.
What specific needs did the NCC convey?
Our request to the leadership of the House and Senate appropriations committees’ agriculture...
Trust Protocol participating producers will find the new streamlined enrollment for the 2022-2024 crops easy and quick. Production data, which remains confidential, now can be more efficiently uploaded into the Protocol platform, thus paving the way for a potential...
Judd Hill event focuses on production tactics and values beyond the field.
June 13, 2022
⋅ By Mary Hightower ⋅
A June 22 field day at the Judd Hill Foundation Farm near Trumann, will feature discussions on why sustainability is important not only...
⋅ By Eddie McGriff ⋅
Deer feeding in cotton has risen sharply over the last few years. Deer damage can cause severe stand losses, delayed maturity and yield reductions. In some cases, entire fields or large portions of fields can...
So often I hear myself say, “What a wonderful life I have had.” Recently, someone said, “Tell me about it.”
I thought, what would I say? How would I describe what I have experienced in my 89 years?
And, before I...
Elevated seed houses are valuable for short-term seed storage, wet seed storage and gins with limited yard space. Design improvements allow overhead seed houses to be an efficient method for loading trucks from flat-storage houses and gins.
When fully loaded,...
FLORIDA | David Wright
Cotton crop production costs have historically increased 3% to 5% yearly, but they have doubled for the year 2021 to 2022 for most inputs. Cotton technology helps farmers manage the crop through the technology in the seed...
⋅ BY JULIE MURPHREE ⋅
Coming from a family of pilots, I was again struck by the power of aviation when I read that a single aircraft flown by a pilot can spray thousands of acres in a day. Still,...
Bollgard 3 Cotton Being Evaluated For The Class Of ’23.
The Deltapine seed brand’s New Product Evaluator (NPE) program kicks off its 15th season in 2022, celebrating a milestone of helping raise yield potential and improving production across the Cotton...
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...
