Sunday, June 28, 2026

Early To Mid-Season Insect Pest Control

• 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...

Agriculture teachers in high demand

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...

An Ominous Cloud

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...

Conversation With The Gin Manager At Arizona’s Pinal Gin

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...

Industry News for May 2022

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...

Prepare For Early Season Pests

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...

MSU Guidebook Directs Insect Control For Profit

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...

Keep Insects In Check To Maintain Yield

• 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,...

NAAA Cautions Drones-UAs Not To Interfere With Low-Altitude Manned Ag Aircraft

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...

Sporadic Pests Of Seedling Cotton

Keep An Eye Out For The “Odd Balls” That May Threaten Young Cotton ⋅ BY SCOTT GRAHAM ⋅ AUBURN UNIVERSITY One of the challenges of cotton insect pest management is also one of the things that makes it exciting: no two seasons...

The Wilders: A Texas Heritage

Providing For The World One Generation At A Time ⋅ BY CASSIDY NEMEC ⋅ ASSISTANT EDITOR Joe Wilder, a long-time farmer in Snook, Texas, likely never imagined the family farm he married into and joined back in 1964 would be what it...

Holding On To Soil Moisture In The Southern Plains

Rainfall is critical to cotton across the Cotton Belt. However, effective ways to capture and maximize precipitation in the Southern Plains are always top of mind for the region’s producers. Cotton Incorporated and many cooperators invest in research to...

Preserving Products, Position

With USDA projecting 9% more U.S. cotton acres this season, the National Cotton Council is working to ensure affordable and effective inputs/resources are available while solidifying U.S. cotton’s reputation. What about crop input availability? The NCC monitors rulemaking and other activities...

‘Scream Or Enjoy The Ride’

“Life is like a roller coaster. It has its ups and downs. But it’s your choice to scream or enjoy the ride.” I’ve seen this quote used many times although I can’t confirm where it originated.  When you climb aboard...

Cotton Consultant of the Year Submission Confirmation

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