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Arizona Farmers, Ranchers Weigh In On State’s Mega-Drought The third edition of the American Farm Bureau’s Assessing Western Drought Conditions survey illustrates many ground-level drought impacts, including an expected reduction in yields, removing or destroying orchard trees or multi-year crops, and selling...

• By Fred Andersen, Arizona Farm Bureau Historian • Editor’s note: This article was excerpted from Arizona Farm Bureau’s recently released history book, “A Century of Progress, 1921-2021.” Economic recovery from the worst of the Depression was slow, but a combination of...

Financial Training Leads Arizona Farmer From Turnrow To Wall Street And Back • By Carroll Smith, Editor• Growing up in an Arizona cotton production area, Brian Rhodes never imagined the twists and turns his career path would take. His parents were schoolteachers in...

• By Julie Murphree, Arizona Farm Bureau • Editor’s note: Here is an excerpt from an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Silvertooth — recently retired director for the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension System and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences associate...

Father/Daughter Team Rocks Cotton In Arizona • By Carroll Smith, Editor • “The dust storms that terrorized America’s High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before. In “The Worst Hard Time,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning New...

University of Arizona Extension cotton specialist Randy Norton discusses the "Effects of Heat Stress on Cotton Production in the Low Deserts of Arizona​" in this 26-minute educational presentation. High-temperature trends in the low desert of Arizona can have a severe...

It wasn’t like I hadn’t seen cotton all my life growing up in the Desert Southwest. I just didn’t expect it to become my life. I signed up for Ag Econ 313, Economics of Futures Markets, while planning my senior...

• By Erin Kuiper • On the western edge of Buckeye, Arizona, sits the family dairy farm where I grew up. My father Bill and mother Sine Kerr started their dairy business in 1980 at the ripe age of 18....

• By Ana Otto • The monarch butterfly population has declined considerably over the past several decades. Reasons for the decline are attributed to reduced breeding habitat, extreme weather and other factors related to overwintering habitat, pesticides and deforestation in...

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...

With planting underway and small seedlings emerging across the state, it is important to remember there are many things that can occur in the field affecting the survivability of those seedlings. Among those is seedling disease. Disease pressure can...

Arizona’s High Cotton Status May Be Worst Possible Outcome During Current Trade Wars • By Julie Murphree • The other day via my @CottonAggie Twitter account I reported, “Arizona farmers expect this year’s Upland cotton crop to yield an average of...

• By Mari N. Jensen • The U.S. groundwater supply is smaller than originally thought, according to a new research study that includes a University of Arizona hydrologist. The study provides important insights into the depths of underground fresh and brackish water...

This Stalwart Of The Cotton Ginning Industry Made Significant Contributions During His Long Career. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Loyd E. Colbert, retired ginning legend from Modern Ginning in Blythe, California. Loyd passed away...

The National Cotton Council issued a news release in which it welcomed the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s announcement that “U.S. cotton is free — after more than 100 years — of the devastating pink bollworm.” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who...