pests

If not managed properly, thrips can cause devasting losses to cotton grown in the Southeast. Injury symptoms can range from leaf curling to delays in crop maturity, stand loss and reduced lint. And less lint means less money in...

The National Cotton Council’s FY23 federal agriculture appropriations request would support important activities ranging from pest management research to export promotion. What specific needs did the NCC convey? Our request to the leadership of the House and Senate appropriations committees’ agriculture...

• By Ethan Carter • The second week of November has finally brought cold temperatures to the Florida Panhandle, something needed to kill regrowth in cotton fields. The past several years, we have had increasingly warm winters with few to...

By Jay Mahaffey Scott, Miss. As I get older and more sentimental, lessons learned in my experience become a bit clearer. I have spent time in cotton fields since I was a very young boy in northeast Louisiana. Many of these...