I grew up in the Panhandle of Texas, amidst dirt, cattle, horses and blowing snow. After high school, I made the move to Lubbock, where Texas Tech University provided me with my first glimpse into the intriguing world of cotton....

The National Cotton Council actively weighs in on legislation and regulations affecting U.S. cotton industry viability. ⬛ What about key legislative measures? The Senate and House agriculture committees have made climate policy a priority (the Growing Climate Solutions Act passed the...

Tom Stallings of the Funston Gin in Funston, Georgia, is named the 2021 Southeast Cotton Ginner of the Year. The award was presented at the Southern Southeastern Annual Meeting held recently in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Southern Southeastern...

Nematodes, Thrips And That Haircut On Dec. 7, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. Clyo, Georgia time, Clayton Waller parked his cotton picker, filed some miscellaneous paperwork and headed to town to tackle the one thing woefully behind schedule — a haircut....

Davis Family Farms Is Dedicated To Remaining Sustainable And Preserving Its Legacy • By Carroll Smith, Editor • When Bart Davis was 17 years old, he lost his mother. When he was 18, his father passed away, and Davis had to bring...

e3 Sustainable Cotton Program Provides Traceable, Transparent Supply Chain For U.S. Cotton  • By Carroll Smith, Editor • For the past few years, consumers have expressed a desire to know more about the fiber from which their clothing and woven home goods...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Walt Corcoran grows cotton, peanuts and corn with his son-in-law, Cody Young, at Liikatchka Plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. The Barbour County operation is a family farm that not only nurtures the crops but also the people who...

Sometimes when closing out an issue of Cotton Farming, it occurs to me that “Easter eggs” are figuratively embedded throughout the magazine. Although they were not placed there by design, nonetheless, there they are. And each one this month...

ALABAMA Steve M. Brown King Kong once dominated the landscape. Now there is no Kong. In the past, we have had extended periods in which one variety occupied large portions of the Cotton Belt. Similarly, smaller regions have been overwhelmingly committed to...

The work done by Cotton Incorporated’s Agricultural and Environmental Research Division (AERD) is crucial to the cotton growing community. However, beyond the work, we all know that people make the difference in every organization. The AERD staff at Cotton...

AgriLife Extension providing trainings across state with updates Cotton, corn and soybean producers in 22 Texas counties will be restricted on the use of two popular herbicides this growing season after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency renews registrations. Green cotton plants...

BASF is delivering on its promise to bring only the best performing cottonseed varieties to the market and announced the addition of a new Stoneville cotton seed variety with high yield potential for the 2022 season. ST 4595B3XF is an early-mid maturity...

Louis Heckmann and his wife, Debbie, farm 1,100 acres of dryland cotton they rotate with corn and milo in Fort Bend County, Texas. Historically, they grew a high-yielding competitive variety, but in 2020 they decided to try PhytoGen® brand PHY...

· By Tom Allen and Brian Pieralisi · During 2021, two sets of the cotton varieties (44 entries) contained in the Mississippi State University Official Variety Trial were planted in Stoneville. At flowering (7/18/2021), plants were inoculated with a bacterial suspension...

As we think ahead to the upcoming year, variety selection is on everyone’s mind. I’m sure folks have heard this statement several times, but cotton variety selection is the most important decision we will make all year. In many...