Crop May Have A Place In Areas Where Water Is Less Available • By Pat Melgares, Kansas State University • Is there room for cotton in Kansas … the Wheat State? There certainly is, says Kansas State University water resources engineer Jonathan Aguilar,...

Cotton Incorporated Develops Partnerships To Coordinate With Cotton Farmers’ Priorities The Agricultural and Environmental Research Division at Cotton Incorporated wears many different hats. We often hear of them partnering to support on-farm research projects, managing funded projects or giving presentations...

New Cotton Stripper Fits West Texas Farmers’ Efficiency Goals • By Mary Jane Buerkle • For generations, the Smiths of Floyd County, Texas, have embraced ways to help their fellow farmers by being leaders both in and out of the field. One...

Every female Palmer amaranth plant can produce over 1 million seeds that may germinate and compete with a cotton crop. One doctoral student is taking on these weeds, which rob farmers through herbicide costs, yield damage or quality losses. Palmer...

When the last lines of “Auld Lang Syne” died out at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve and the new year dawned, we all turned our attention to the future. In the cotton industry, variety selection for the...

Qualified, available labor is an issue that many industries and businesses across the country are facing. Fortunately for the cotton industry, Texas A&M University has been working to combat this with the agricultural systems management undergraduate degree program. “As our...

My husband, Rick, and I grow cotton, corn and soybeans in the Missouri Bootheel near the small community of LaForge. It’s not a town, so some maps will show it and some won’t. Rick grew up on a farm...

The 2020-21 U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol Annual Report reveals that this “made from scratch” system for sustainably grown U.S. cotton made significant progress in its first year. What is the Trust Protocol’s overall goal? This science-based sustainability initiative is delivering a...

• By Fred Andersen, Arizona Farm Bureau Historian • Editor’s note: This article was excerpted from Arizona Farm Bureau’s recently released history book, “A Century of Progress, 1921-2021.” Economic recovery from the worst of the Depression was slow, but a combination of...

• By Mary Hightower • Arkansas row and field crops endured a 100-year flood and epic insect numbers but still ended the year with record cotton and rice yields and higher crop prices. 100-year flooding In June, southeastern Arkansas experienced extraordinary flooding,...

Despite control measures the Environmental Protection Agency’ implemented in October 2020, 2021 reports show little change in number, severity or geographic extent of dicamba-related incidents compared to reports the agency received before 2020. Dicamba use has been subject to considerable...

A Kansas State University researcher in western Kansas says he may have an innovative way to kill weeds commonly found in farmer’s fields: simply put, he wants to crush ‘em. That’s right, says Vipan Kumar, a weed scientist at the...

Researchers from the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture outline gains in all major agricultural sectors in this year’s economic report to the governor, a marked improvement from the previous fiscal year that reflected depressed global demand for U.S....

For many or most growers across North Carolina, 2021 will be a year to remember for quite a while. It is very rare that high prices, timely rains throughout the summer, avoidance of tropical storms or prolonged cloudy/wet weather...

• By Bonnie Coblentz • High commodity prices in 2021 pushed Mississippi agriculture to a sharp increase in total value — a record estimated $8.33 billion — despite a huge decline in government assistance aimed at coronavirus relief. Agriculture’s estimated value...