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Industry News For May 2021

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...

Plains Cotton Growers CEO Steve Verett plans to retire after 24 years

Plains Cotton Growers Inc. CEO Steve Verett has decided to retire after 24 years of service to PCG and the High Plains cotton industry, effective June 30. He notified the PCG Board of Directors of his decision at the...

Potential Department Of Labor Changes On Tap Under The New Administration

The news is full of the changes being brought on by the new Biden administration, but not much is seen in the press about its effect on the Department of Labor. On the other hand, there are many business...

BASF, PCCA partner to digitize e3 Cotton traceability

Cotton farmers in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Kansas who are Plains Cotton Cooperative Association members and grow e3 Sustainable Cotton now have access to a fully digitized bale-tracking platform that enables easier and more efficient cotton traceability. With BASF’s...

Plains Cotton Cooperative Association elects new chairman, vice chair

Lubbock, Texas-based Plains Cotton Cooperative Association Board of Directors has elected Dahlen Hancock of Home, Texas, as its new chairman. The board elected Springlake, Texas, grower Lexie Fennell as vice chairman. Eddie Smith of Floydada, Texas, has served on PCCA’s...

Plains Cotton Growers elect new officers, Executive Committee

Brent Nelson of Sudan, Texas, was elected president of Plains Cotton Growers Inc. for 2020-2021 during the group's quarterly Board of Directors meeting recently via Zoom. Joining Nelson on the PCG officer team are Martin Stoerner of Lockney, elected vice...

The Job Of A Lifetime

Members of the Verett family have farmed in Crosby County, Texas, since my granddad settled here in 1917. I grew up in Ralls, and my dad was a farmer but retired relatively early. At that point, my older brother,...

USDA-NASS Issues Season’s First Estimates For The Texas High Plains

• By Mary Jane Buerkle • In its first official crop production estimates for the Texas High Plains this season, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service pegged the 2019 upland cotton crop at 4.93 million bales harvested...

Texas Tech Football Game Scores A Big Win For Cotton

• By Vicky Boyd, Managing Editor • Online encyclopedia Wikipedia defines synergy as the “creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts.” The Internet reference site must have had the Celebrate Cotton Football Game in mind. Through...

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