Richard L. (Ricky) Clarke III, a merchant from Cordova, Tennessee, will serve as president of Cotton Council International (CCI) for 2020. CCI is the National Cotton Council’s export promotion arm and carries out programs in more than 50 countries...
Cotton Farming magazine, in conjunction with sponsor Syngenta, recently recognized Eddy Cates of Marked Tree, Arkansas, as the 2019 Cotton Consultant of the Year. He is the 39th consultant to receive the honor, which is voted upon by previous...
• By Kay Ledbetter •
As crop production plans are adapting to the declining water levels in the Ogallala Aquifer, cotton is playing an increasingly important role in water conservation.
While relatively new to the northern Texas Panhandle, cotton has a...
Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association Annual Meeting And Trade Show Set For April 2-3 In Lubbock
BY TONY WILLIAMS
TCGA Executive Vice President
Last year’s Texas cotton crop had great potential. However, after adverse weather conditions, it fell off quite a bit in...
Cotton producers who grew Stoneville cotton seed were recognized this week for their harvests at the annual Stoneville Legacy Club celebration held in Destin, Florida. Now in its fourth year, the club honors cotton growers for their high yields...
Four Louisiana State University College of Agriculture students received scholarships during the recent 2020 Louisiana Agricultural Technology and Management Conference.
The conference, organized by the Louisiana Agricultural Consultants Association, allowed companies to showcase their latest products and services. Experts from...
Just four years ago cotton prices bottomed out, Arkansas acreage and production dropped, and only a handful of cotton gins remained open.
But in 2019, prices, acreage and production saw a dramatic increase, bringing a need for more ginning capacity....
Cotton leaf roll dwarf virus is now considered part of the environment, according to Alabama Extension specialists and Auburn University researchers. The same disease that was first recognized in 2017, damaged fields near the Gulf Coast in late 2018...
• By Denise Attaway •
One thing many farmers know for certain is that nothing is certain right now.
During the South Carolina Cotton Growers Meeting held in Santee recently, Clemson Extension Economist Nathan Smith told growers that despite stable demand...
U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 13 million cotton acres this spring, down 5.5% from 2019 (based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's February 2020 estimate), according to the National Cotton Council’s 39th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey.
Upland...
National Cotton Council economists point to a few key factors that will shape the U.S. cotton industry’s 2020 economic outlook.
This past year can be characterized as a year with significant uncertainty and volatility in the global economy and the...
Amid concerns the 2020 growing season is setting up for a repeat of last year’s challenges, Louisiana State University AgCenter experts emphasized early season management strategies at the Northeast Louisiana Crops Forum held recently in Delhi.
Continued warm, wet weather...
Bayer has announced a herbicide molecule in Phase 2 of early development that has demonstrated effective control of key resistant grasses in research trials, according to a company news release.
At the same time Bayer researchers are working to identify...
Nufarm Americas Inc. has entered into a distribution agreement with Nutrichem to market GoalTender and Goal 2XL herbicides, according to a news release. The marketing rights will transition from Corteva Agriscience to Nufarm in September.
The Goal brands are a...
Together, siblings Keith Mayberry and Kim Mayberry-Holifield work together to ensure the fourth generation of their family farm continues a tradition of raising cotton near Essex, Missouri. Standing on the same land that their grandfather purchased in the 1940s,...
