PhytoGen cottonseed, Corteva Agriscience's U.S. cottonseed brand, powers up for 2022 with its highest-yielding portfolio of Upland varieties yet. After consistently showing exponential yield increases in on-farm trials across the Cotton Belt, the company released PhytoGen brand PHY 411...
Winter production meetings, a long-running staple of the Cooperative Extension Service’s efforts to help Arkansas growers succeed from field prep to harvest, will again be in-person throughout the state in 2022.
Production meetings provide an opportunity for agronomists, researchers and...
Conditions are drying around much of Texas, and forecasts are calling 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. That was...
Missouri Cotton Farmer And Ginner Shares Insights About Bigger, Denser Round Bales
• By Carroll Smith •
Editor
Allen Below, who grows mostly cotton in Stoddard, New Madrid and Wayne counties, Missouri, says farming is all he has ever done since he...
Alabama Farmer Shares Insights With Arizona Agriculture
• By Julie Murphree •
Arizona Farm Bureau
A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Larkin Martin is managing partner of Martin Farm, a family farming operation in northern Alabama. The farm’s principal crops are corn, wheat, soybeans...
It’s been nearly 90 years since the last “black blizzard” of the Dust Bowl swept through the Texas Panhandle, a harrowing storm of topsoil and dust that turned day to night and destroyed the livelihoods of countless frontier farmers....
BASF Opens Application Submissions For Cotton Clubs
FiberMax and Stoneville cotton growers can now apply to join BASF’s FiberMax One Ton Club and Stoneville Legacy Club.
The application deadline for the FiberMax One Ton Club is Feb. 28, 2022. Printed qualification...
The Cotton Ginning Conference will take place during the 2022 Beltwide Cotton Conferences. Meetings begin at 1:30 p.m. CST Wednesday, Jan. 5, and conclude at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 6, at the Marriott Rivercenter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
This...
There seem to be so many buzzwords that come and go in the business world. I remember the days of trying to “think outside the box” to achieve team “synergy.” And goodness knows we have all grown tired of...
Farmers Across The Cotton Belt Reap The Benefits Of A Bountiful Harvest And Strong Market
• By Yangxuan Liu,
University of Georgia •
Every year in October and November, harvest approached across the Cotton Belt. This year was no exception, as cotton...
If I had to put a face on the pandemic, it would be a big, green, ugly Grinch with a furrowed brow and villainous eyes. Two years ago, it sneaked into the lives of people around the world and...
Lack Of Water Reduces California Farmers’ Incentive To Grow Cotton
• By Ching Lee,
California Farm Bureau Federation •
Lack of water for agriculture could dampen prospects for California farmers to grow more cotton, even as prices for the commodity have soared.
Diminished...
Throughout 2021, the National Cotton Council engaged with the Biden administration and Congress on finding remedies to an economically debilitating supply chain situation.
■ What has been conveyed?
Early in 2021, the NCC, the American Cotton Shippers Association and other agriculture...
I’ve written about Dude before. He’s the mongrel of unknown heritage who moved from California to Georgia over a year ago. Dude and Louise, a streetwise chihuahua, shared a house with our son, Seth, in Los Angeles. Louise and...
The U. S. Department of Agriculture estimates for the 2021 Alabama cotton crop have remained slightly above 900 pounds per acre since the initial August report. Maybe they are close, but I don’t know HOW they make their guesses....
