• By Tiffany Dowell Lashmet • Question: What statutory protections are available as a defense to a landowner if hunters are injured on my land? Answer: With opening weekend for deer season right around the corner, this is a great and...

Research has long been an anchor that helps cotton producers achieve high production and profitability in their operations. Likewise, ag research is at the core of Cotton Incorporated’s mission. The collaboration between scientists and growers participating in on-farm research...

Everyone has their favorite expletives. When I was a child, I always laughed when the cartoon character, Charlie Brown, got frustrated and said, “rats!” He was a classy guy, not given to cussin’. It is also funny that while...

It’s “everything I could imagine and more!” That’s how Katherine Allen described her first months as a student in a unique graduate certificate program in waterfowl habitat and recreational management. Allen, who graduated from Louisiana State University in May, is...

• By Jennifer Whitlock • In recent weeks, farm input costs have soared to record highs, leading farmers and ranchers in the Lone Star State to become increasingly worried. During an interview with RFD-TV, Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening relayed...

• By Fred Miller • Phil Tugwell — “Tug” to his friends — was known as a hard worker who was generous with resources, knowledge, credit and … well, pretty much everything. Noel Philip Tugwell died Oct. 20 in Fayetteville, Arkansas....

• By Ching Lee • Lack of water for agriculture could dampen prospects for California farmers to grow more cotton, even as prices for the commodity have soared. Diminished global cotton inventories and increased demand for the fiber are expected to...

The Louisiana Agriculture Hall of Distinction is once again accepting nominations for its annual induction ceremony, which will be held March 24, 2022, in Baton Rouge. The nomination form can be obtained online at www.louisianaagriculturehallofdistinction.com or through any parish Louisiana...

• By George Watson • Since its formation in 2005, the Texas Alliance for Water Conservation has promoted water conservation through technology and best management practices in order to improve agricultural sustainability and profitability on the Texas High Plains. One...

Oklahoma State University has received more than $2.6 million to research ways to improve agricultural production while reducing environmental impacts, said Kevin Wagner, director of the Oklahoma Water Resources Center at OSU. It will require a holistic approach, Wagner said....

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture while improving groundwater quantity and quality...

Julius Tillery, founder of the company Black Cotton and a distinguished leader in environmental, agricultural and racial justice in North Carolina, is being honored by North Carolina State University’s Park Scholars with the William C. Friday Award. Tillery was chosen...

The Texas Cotton Gin Museum’s volunteer engineers got together in Burton, Texas, in January to do a routine crankcase oil change on the 1925 Bessemer Type IV engine. This vintage piece, nicknamed Lady B, powers all the equipment inside...

Several members of the North Carolina State University cotton Extension team, county agents and others have recently developed or participated in production-related podcasts. The recorded sessions provide timely updates to current production issues, and NCSU cotton specialist Guy Collins...

• By Kay Ledbetter • From carbon sequestration to greenhouse gas emissions to cover crops, this fall a team of Texas A&M AgriLife faculty and others will begin evaluating the impacts of regenerative agriculture in semi-arid ecoregions in Texas and...