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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...
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...
