Don Shurley, UGA Emeritus Cotton Economist
In 2026, provisions of an improved ARC/PLC income safety net and higher loan rates in the OBBBA will fully kick in. Payments from the 2025 crop year will be received in October 2026. Producers will...
Anthony Bly / SDSU Extension Soils Field Specialist
Written collaboratively by Debankur Sanyal, Johnathon Wolthuizen and Anthony Bly.
Soil has always been considered as a living system due to its biological components: fungi, bacteria and plant roots. While physical properties maintain...
Rosemary Brandt / Senior Director, Strategic Communications & Creative Services / arizona.edu
Cotton is a famously thirsty crop, yet Arizona is one of the top U.S. producers. But how does a crop that thrives on water and humidity manage to...
Linda Geist /Sr. Strategic Communications Consultant / College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, MU
Stink bugs vary in size and shape, but they are generally described as having shield-shaped bodies. Adult green stink bugs are usually light green. The...
DR. Cheryl Mackowiak Associate Professor
Soil and Water Science
North Florida Research and Education Center
Fertilizer source is one of the four Rs of fertilizer management (Right source, Right place, Right time, and Right placement). Mineral fertilizers are typically synthesized (i.e., nitrogen from the...
DR. John R.C. Robinson / Professor and Extension Specialist for Cotton Marketing / cottonmarketing.tamu.edu
Through Friday, January 16, ICE cotton futures stepped up from the mid-64-cent level, bounced off the 65.20ish level multiple times, then gyrated back down to where...
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (Dec. 13, 2025) — New cotton varieties named to the Deltapine® Class of ’26 provide growers more planting options for proven performance potential in leading trait systems.
“The Class of ’26 includes four additional Deltapine varieties with NPE-grower-proven...
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
ATHENS, GEORGIA
Snider’s research lays the groundwork for improving cotton genetics, dovetailing closely with that of UGA cotton breeder Peng Chee, whose mission is to develop high-performing cotton with genetics tailored to the Southeast.
While Snider investigates how specific traits...
Approved by USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board Economic Research Service | Situation and Outlook ReportNext release isJanuary14, 2026CWS-25k|December 11, 2025
Leslie Meyer and Taylor Dew
Global 2025/26Cotton Ending Stocks Rise asProduction Remains Above Mill Use
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
MARY HIGHTOWER
JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
PHOTO: Ryan McGeeney / University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture
While the number of gins in Arkansas has declined to tie the all-time low of 26 set in 2015, the state still boasts the nation’s busiest gin.
The...
merri.day / agrilife.org
Agriculture has always faced uncertainty. Although agricultural risk management has come a long way in recent years, producers face a multifaceted risk landscape that is constantly changing due to unpredictable weather, evolving regulatory frameworks, and volatile markets....
Camp Hand, Wade Parker, and Chris McCranie
University of Georgia Extension
Attached here you can find our PRELIMINARY on-farm variety trial results for 2025. Once all locations have been ginned and fiber quality data are received from the classing office, we will finalize...
DENISE ATTAWAY
CLEMSON, SOUTH CAROLINA
Christopher Saski, a systems geneticist and professor in the Clemson Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, is leading a study that involves genetically engineering cotton to provide faster crop improvements and more resilient cotton strains.
Zhigang Li...
CHERYL MACKOWTAK
GAINSVILLE, FLORIDA
Cotton production in Florida’s Panhandle presents a unique set of challenges: light, sandy soils, variable rainfall, and diverse field conditions. One of the most critical decisions growers face each season is how much nitrogen (N) to apply,...
Low prices, a difficult growing season and expensive inputs could spell a shift away from cotton for growers in 'survival mode.' (Division of Agriculture photo.)
SARAH CATO
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS
With excessive rainfall at planting and hot, dry weather mid-season, Arkansas cotton...
