August is a key month to finish off the cotton crop. Most of the crop management (fertilization, herbicides) is through, and it is important to protect the fruit from stinkbugs and plant bugs. We had a wet July, which...
West Texas Growers Adopt No-Till Coupled With Cover Crops To Reduce Erosion And Protect Young Cotton Plants
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
West Texas cotton producers Kris Verett and Ian McIntosh have adopted conservation tillage coupled with cover crops over...
In late June, the Commodity Commission Ex Officio Committee met to make appointments to the Georgia Cotton Commission Board of Directors. GCC Chairman Bart Davis, a cotton, peanut, corn and cattle farmer from Doerun, Georgia, was reappointed to another...
Rhino Medical Supply Tapped As Exclusive Distributor For Cotton Medical Scrubs
Field to Closet’s vision of providing 100% Deltapine cotton medical scrubs crafted with cotton grown in Georgia and created in an end-to-end U.S. supply chain took a giant step...
Cotton Council International, the National Cotton Council’s export promotion arm, is educating manufacturers, mills and brands/retailers on why U.S. cotton is the “The Cotton The World Trusts” to drive the fiber’s export growth.
How important is sustainability to creating demand?
Although...
In spite of the pandemic, we were able to host a few interns this year. These internships give college students a chance to see what cotton ginning may look like as a career path. Since the inception of the...
Dave Hudgens was an outstanding baseball player for the Sun Devils at the University of Arizona. During his college career, he racked up some solid stats. After graduating, he played in the minor leagues for a few years and...
Out-of-control weeds are the latest challenge to hit Texas producers among the negative effects related to untimely rains since late spring, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Rainy weather across the state has created a convergence of...
• By Anders Huseth •
As we near early August, cotton growers should be shifting their focus from early season insects to late season pests that arrive after bloom, particularly bollworms and stink bugs. Bollworms have been a persistent pest...
• By Mary Hightower •
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days, with some morphing into online formats.
The Division of Agriculture had four in-person field days on...
• By Larry Steckel •
We have visited fields where growers have found Palmer amaranth that escaped an auxin herbicide (Engenia, XtendiMax, Enlist One) application also escaped follow-up glufosinate (Liberty) application (Pictures 1 and 2).
Auxin herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth was documented...
Nufarm Americas Inc. has launched Leopard Herbicide, a premix of two sulfonylureas, for soybeans, field corn and cotton.
It contains the active ingredients rimsulfuron and thifensulfuron in a water-dispersible granule formulation. Both are members of the Weed Science Society of...
• 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...
