When a human or an animal gets sick or is stressed, their temperatures can go up. The same is true for plants.
A researcher with Texas Tech's College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources is using drones to detect crop...
As I write this, the coronavirus numbers are just as confusing as they were when this whole thing started. No one knows exactly what is going on and how this odd disease seems to work and/or affect individuals.
What we...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Texas A&M AgriLife is developing an inexpensive and easy-to-use mobile app and irrigation management system to help agricultural producers increase water-use efficiency and continue producing cotton.
The new project is funded by the Texas A&M Water...
In the life of a cotton consultant, the day starts early and often lasts well past dark-thirty. The hours are long, but their passion for helping farmer-clients succeed and turn a profit on their cotton crop is boundless.
In 1981,...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Cotton Incorporated leaders and scientists continue to advance the crucial agricultural and environmental research for which they are responsible.
Cotton Incorporated’s Agricultural and Environmental Research Department has taken a steadfast approach to managing ongoing research projects...
Field-To-Market’s Newest Technology Partner Named
The Seam has been approved as a qualified data management partner with Field to Market: The Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. This completes an integration of sustainability metrics powered by Field to Market’s Fieldprint Platform into...
Consider The Use Of ‘Natural Enemies’ To Help Control Western Cotton Pests
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
In the Arizona cotton insect arena, the most notorious villains are Lygus bugs and sweetpotato or silverleaf whiteflies.
Lygus damage squares with their piercing-sucking mouthparts,...
Editor’s note: Two new cotton specialists, Drs. Ben McKnight and Brian Pieralisi, have been appointed by Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and Mississippi State Extension Service, respectively. Be sure to check out their comments each month in our Specialists...
• By Amanda Huber,
Southeast Editor •
This year can hardly be described as “normal” by any sense of the word. Therefore, it is no surprise that weather has been variable as well. Early season temperatures were at or below normal,...
In the arid regions of the desert Southwest, water is by far the most limiting resource for crop production systems. As such, it is an extremely valuable resource to producers and an incentive to conserve and use with utmost...
Texas A&M AgriLife experts say Texans mistakenly identifying cicada killer wasps as Asian giant hornets.
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Since the release of information about Asian giant hornets, Texas A&M AgriLife entomologists are being inundated with cicada killers and...
• By Clay Perkins •
Questions continue to be asked on how to best manage junglerice, barnyardgrass and goosegrass in cotton and soybean.
Research earlier this spring looking at grass control after an initial glyphosate + dicamba application showed that if...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service has issued its 2020 acreage report, which confirms planted cotton acreage is less this season than it was in 2019.
All cotton planted area for 2020 is estimated at 12.2 million...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
Calls continue to come in on concerns about poor Palmer amaranth control after a dicamba application. More than a few have reported that Palmer amaranth has survived multiple dicamba + glyphosate applications...
• By Jennifer Dorsett,
Field Editor •
June 18 was just another day of work for farmers and ranchers across Texas, but for Hidalgo County Farm Bureau member Mike England, it was the first day of cotton harvest.
“The farm I harvested...
