• By Christine Souza •
Editor’s note: This article is excerpted from the Ag Alert April 7, 2021, issue. To read the article in its entirety, go to www.agalert.com/archive/.
With all signs pointing to a critically dry year in California, farmers...
Cotton Scrubs Project Benefits Farmers, Rural Communities And U.S. Textile Manufacturing
It’s October. A nurse who works at a rural hospital in a South Georgia community looks at the clock as it ticks steadily toward 5 a.m. With a few...
Many factors can impact cotton yield — variety, weather and soil type are a few. But pests and insects are always a problem across the country. One pervasive pest that is no stranger, no matter where you live, is...
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol has joined the TextileGenesis platform as the world’s first sustainable cotton fiber to offer full transparency across the supply chain on the platform.
This will enable the protocol, a science-based sustainability program that collects farm-level data...
Seventy-eight growers from across Texas, New Mexico and California qualified for BASF's FiberMax One Ton Club based on their 2020 harvest. The program, recognizes growers who harvest 4 bales or greater yields per acre using FiberMax cotton varieties, has...
There are many risk factors associated with production agriculture — many of them including aspects that producers cannot control. Weather, rainfall and pressures from cotton pests are all factors with a large impact on plant growth and maturity.
Scott Graham,...
• By Keith Edmiston •
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency released the 2021 crop Upland Cotton Loan Premium and Discount tables April 15. The biggest changes are in extraneous matter for plastics with level 1 and 2...
The Deltapine New Product Evaluator Program kicks off its 14th season with NPE growers evaluating cotton variety candidates containing ThryvOn Technology, which is the industry’s first cotton biotech trait to protect against feeding damage from tarnished plant bug and...
The increasing salinity of the Rio Grande River is a real problem for agricultural producers. Experts from Texas A&M AgriLife Research are studying this problem to provide options and advice for those who rely on this water source.
The Rio...
• By Steve Brown •
Most management guides for cotton discuss the initiation of planting in terms of calendar dates, soil temperatures and 3 to 5-day forecasts. Recommended soil temps center on 65 degrees Fahrenheit at a depth of 3...
Nufarm Americas Inc. has acquired Pentia plant growth regulator from BASF.
The product offers a track record of maximizing cotton yields with improved plant uptake, rainfastness, height management, boll retention, earliness and yield potential, according to a news release.
Pentia contains...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Cotton producers will begin putting fertilizer down in the next couple weeks and start planting in May. Many will be using new and improved cotton varieties but haven’t updated their fertilizing practices to match the...
• By Stanley Culpepper and Taylor Randell •
Research over the past three seasons has confirmed a Georgia population of Palmer amaranth to be resistant to topical applications of PPO herbicides including Reflex, Cobra and Blazer (Figure 1).
For cotton and...
• By Larry Oldham •
The soils in Mississippi are diverse, reflecting parent material differences; the warm, humid climate; very active soil biology because of the warm, humid climate; and the unique topography. Agriculture in each part of the state...
Parasitic nematodes cause $125 billion in agricultural damage around the world each year, but University of Florida scientists hope to alleviate some of that destruction.
To do so, UF researchers will use artificial intelligence to try to more rapidly identify...
