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Alabama Farmer Shares Insights With Arizona Agriculture • By Julie Murphree • Arizona Farm Bureau A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Larkin Martin is managing partner of Martin Farm, a family farming operation in northern Alabama. The farm’s principal crops are corn, wheat, soybeans...

Alabama producers can brush up on best management practices and prepare for the upcoming growing seasons at the 2022 Alabama Row Crops Short Course. The course will be held Tuesday, Jan. 18, and Wednesday, Jan. 19, at the Embassy...

Alabama cotton producers are nearing one month of harvest. After many early season delays, dastardly weather at the end of October and some difficult field conditions, producers are ready to hit the field and bring in the crop. Alabama Cooperative...

Harvest may be underway in Alabama, but variety trial results are in, and it is time for producers to begin making crop variety decisions for the 2022 planting season. Alabama Cooperative Extension System researchers, in partnership with the Auburn University...

By Amanda Huber, Southeast Editor Managing the cotton crop in many Southeast fields is presenting a challenge in 2021. Weather conditions shaped a planting window from April to June. Even into midseason, rain has prevented timely spraying and caused waterlogged soils...

The June 30 U.S. Department of Agriculture planting estimates report indicated 410,000 acres of cotton in Alabama for 2021. The number for the prior two seasons was 450,000 acres, so the reduction is about 9%. Nationwide, cotton acres are...

• By Audrey Gamble • albamaFertilizer being transferred to a spreader truck — photo by Josh Thompson, UFL-IFASWith cotton planting dates varying widely across the state, time for sidedress fertilizer may or may not be fast-approaching. Regardless of planting date,...

• By Steve M. Brown • Cool, wet spring weather caused planting delays and even some chilling injury to cotton seedlings — photo courtesy Alabama Cooperative ExtensionAlabama cotton producers find themselves scrambling to complete planting of the 2021 crop. Cool,...

In 2020 we began seeing several cases where summer grass weeds like goosegrass and junglerice were poorly controlled by postemergence treatments in many Xtend crops. This led to a regional project partially funded by the Alabama Soybean Producers to...

When the most common sign is yield loss, it makes it difficult to put a finger on the cause. In a field of cotton or corn, the culprit is likely underground pests: nematodes. Kathy Lawrence, a professor and researcher in...

• By Steve M. Brown • Replanting Cotton Ugh! Replanting brings: • The FRUSTRATION of re-doing a job that's already been done. • Added EXPENSE for seed, labor, equipment, fuel, etc. • DELAYS in stand establishment and the overall crop calendar...and the sinking suspicion...

A new, secondary market for farmers is on the rise as a carbon commodity market gains traction in the Midwest. In addition to marketing cash crops, producers may have an opportunity to sell carbon stored in the soil on...

Each year, The Fertilizer Institute recognizes 4R Advocates, five pairs of retailers and farmers who are making 4R Nutrient Stewardship a priority in their operations. These partners get it, 4R Farming makes sense economically and environmentally. And that's why...

• By Steve M. Brown • Gov. Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 173, sponsored by Sen. Larry Stutts, into law in early May. The bill — assigned Act No. 2021-321 — requires agricultural limestone products to be labelled with their...

• By Steve M. Brown • A question I've received involves seed delivery and timeliness of that delivery. 2021 has provided a strange start. We’ve never experienced such a delay in getting planting seed to the farm. It was mildly frustrating...