The National Cotton Council strongly encourages its cotton producer members to enroll their 2022 cotton crop in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol before the March 31, 2023, deadline.
Why is Trust Protocol enrollment important?
Launched in 2020, the Trust Protocol was...
Trust Protocol participating producers will find the new streamlined enrollment for the 2022-2024 crops easy and quick. Production data, which remains confidential, now can be more efficiently uploaded into the Protocol platform, thus paving the way for a potential...
The 2020-21 U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol Annual Report reveals that this “made from scratch” system for sustainably grown U.S. cotton made significant progress in its first year.
What is the Trust Protocol’s overall goal?
This science-based sustainability initiative is delivering a...
Arkansas Operation Endorses Forward-Looking Information Exchange
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
Arkansas farmer Marty White grew up working side by side in the field with his mother, father and sisters. They were a close family who believed in the importance of...
U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol 2021 Grower Enrollment Webinars
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol is holding live enrollment webinars focusing on how the program helps U.S. growers meet the changing demands from their end customer. It also assists in better documenting...
A cold front blew through yesterday, chasing off clouds in the overcast sky and replacing them with sunshine and a crispy nip in the air. It was as if the stars had aligned just right on the first day...
The Cotton Trust Protocol will host a series of live webinars, from Sept. 14 through Dec. 14, that will walk interested growers through the process of signing up.
Attendees will learn how the Trust Protocol helps U.S. cotton growers meet...
Cotton Council International, the National Cotton Council’s export promotion arm, is educating manufacturers, mills and brands/retailers on why U.S. cotton is the “The Cotton The World Trusts” to drive the fiber’s export growth.
How important is sustainability to creating demand?
Although...
U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol president says that U.S. cotton’s standing in the global supply chain is being elevated by producers’ involvement in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol sustainability initiative.
As the Trust Protocol’s first year comes to a close, what...
FMC’s Vantacor Formulation Replaces Prevathon For Residual Worm Control
In 2021, FMC launched Vantacor Insect Control powered by Rynaxypyr active for long-lasting residual control of lepidopteran pests. This is the same active found in Prevathon insecticide.
Vantacor contains a high concentration...
One of my most prized photos shows my father squatting in the middle of a cotton field with 5-inch-high plants on both sides of him. Some rows have grass under the cotton; several rows do not.
It was his first...
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...
Beginning April 1, U.S. cotton growers can enroll their 2021 cotton crop in the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol, which aims to set a new standard in more sustainably grown cotton. Existing members will also need to re-enroll their operations...
Southern Cotton Ginners Honors AR Cotton Breeder
Dr. Fred Bourland, cotton breeder and researcher at the Northeast Research and Extension Center at Keiser, Arkansas, recently received the A.L. Vandergriff Cotton Pioneer Award from the Southern Cotton Ginners Association. He is...
The U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol has reached the milestone of welcoming more than 300 brand, retailer, mill and manufacturer members since it opened enrollment six months ago.
This includes Gap Inc. and its related brands Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic...
