• By Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster •
We have visited fields where growers assumed their Engenia or XtendiMax + glyphosate had controlled Palmer amaranth only to find that many had escaped and are now quite large (Picture 1). The...
• By Dominic Reisig •
North Carolina State Extension has two thresholds for bollworm, depending on the type of cotton planted:
Bollgard II, TwinLink, WideStrike: 25 total eggs on 100 leaves or fruiting structures (search throughout the canopy on multiple plants)
Bollgard...
Texas Tech University's Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, in conjunction with the Lubbock Cotton Exchange, will host the 40th session of the Texas International Cotton School Aug. 2-12.
The High Plains program features two weeks of classes, lectures, tours and...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
As they say, there’s no accounting for taste.
Plant bugs, a perennial pest of Arkansas cotton, spend much of June and early July feasting on the silk of corn while it’s still green, the plants still...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
There have been several reports last week of multiple glyphosate and/or clethodim applications not controlling barnyardgrass or jungle rice. We really do not know the precise reasons for the lack of control...
Drew Gholson, coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research and Mississippi State University Extension irrigation specialist, covers irrigation water management practices that decrease water use and increase yield, net returns and water use efficiency in Mid-South cotton...
The June 30 U.S. Department of Agriculture planting estimates report indicated 410,000 acres of cotton in Alabama for 2021. The number for the prior two seasons was 450,000 acres, so the reduction is about 9%. Nationwide, cotton acres are...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...
This is supposed to be about midseason management.
I listen to my esteemed colleague from Arizona Dr. Randy Norton talk about growing cotton in the desert. I am amazed at what they know and how they go about producing the...
Strides have been made, but plastic contamination remains a threat to U.S. cotton’s marketplace competitiveness. Just when we think we have workable methods of handling and removing the yellow and pink premium module wrap, less-expensive and lower-quality versions of...
Growing up on a small West Tennessee cotton farm, I remember many good and bad experiences. I was born and raised in one of those big white frame two-story houses with my brother and me sleeping upstairs.
In the summertime,...
Father/Daughter Team Rocks Cotton In Arizona
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
“The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before. In “The Worst Hard Time,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning New...
MFBF Hosts Summer Commodity Conference
The Mississippi Farm Bureau Fed-eration 2021 Summer Commodity Conference will be held July 21-22 in Jackson, Mississippi.
On July 21, MFBF President Mike McCormick will host a reception for conference participants at 5:30 p.m. at the...
Walter Francis Little, Jr., 93, of Germantown, TN, passed away on May 20, 2021. He was the son of the late Walter F. Little, Sr. and Josephine Bailey Little of Leland, MS, and Charleston, SC. He is survived by...
• By Mary Hightower,
U of A System Division of Agriculture •
The July 30 field day at the Judd Hill Foundation will explore various facets of sustainable cotton production, including soil health, water use and greenhouse gas production. On-site registration...
