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ARIZONA | Randy Norton As we enter the early stages of crop development this season, we will begin to see the appearance of the first pinhead squares. The crop will be quickly progressing from a vegetative stage to a reproductive stage. The occurrence...

NORTH CAROLINA | Guy Collins As I write this Jan. 29, we are preparing for our winter cotton meeting season (aka “the BBQ circuit”), which begins next week. Thankfully, most growers are coming out of another good year for cotton with...

GEORGIA | Camp Hand One year ago, in Cotton Farming magazine, each cotton specialist across the belt discussed fine-tuning plans for the 2022 season. Many of us were singing the high input cost blues. Inputs were high, but the cotton price was...

ARIZONA | Randy Norton Variety selection is probably one of the most important decisions contributing to the success of a cotton crop. As part of our University of Arizona variety testing program, we have observed as much as a bale per acre difference in performance...

  ALABAMA | Steve M. Brown I’m ready to sit down. We’ve almost made it to the end of 2022. My work crew this season consisted of my grad student Sam and me. Like many farmers, we couldn’t find good summer help, so...

NORTH CAROLINA | Keith Edmisten Growers should be checking fields for boll maturity to get an idea of which fields can be defoliated first. The easiest way to get a good start scheduling fields for defoliation is to check for nodes...