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...
There was good news and bad news at the 6th Annual South Carolina Ag Outlook Conference. The good news: sale prices for commodities are trending up. Unfortunately, so are the costs associated with producing them.
Walt Morgan, crop insurance agent...
• By Fred Miller •
Unpredictable and spotty weather left some Arkansas cotton fields a soggy mess while other areas saw record yields in 2021.
“Arkansas cotton yielded an average 1,287 pounds of lint per acre according to the latest estimates,”...
Conditions are drying around much of Texas, and forecasts call for winter weather to be warmer and drier than average.
Commodity producers in much of the state, including the High Plains, experienced a banner year in 2021 due to high...
