⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅
EDITOR
When George B. Walker and his partners launched the Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Company in 1922, his business plan was simple: “To increase the economic value of an acre of cotton.”
To recognize the cotton brand’s 100-year...
⋅ BY CARROLL SMITH ⋅
EDITOR
BASF’s e3 Sustainable Cotton Program recently reported a substantial uptick in grower participation. More than 900 farmers, who grow FiberMax and Stoneville cotton, enrolled by registering cotton bales from their 2021 growing season — a...
BASF celebrated a record 171 applications for the 2021 Stoneville® Legacy Club™, which recognizes farmers committed to producing a top-quality, high-yielding cotton crop. Thirty-two farms qualified by harvesting yields in the top 10% of their states; five of those...
e3 Sustainable Cotton Program Provides Traceable, Transparent Supply Chain For U.S. Cotton
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
For the past few years, consumers have expressed a desire to know more about the fiber from which their clothing and woven home goods...
BASF is delivering on its promise to bring only the best performing cottonseed varieties to the market and announced the addition of a new Stoneville cotton seed variety with high yield potential for the 2022 season.
ST 4595B3XF is an early-mid maturity...
When the last lines of “Auld Lang Syne” died out at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve and the new year dawned, we all turned our attention to the future.
In the cotton industry, variety selection for the...
BASF has introduced Axant Flex herbicide trait technology, designed to help growers get the upper hand on herbicide-resistant weeds
This quadruple-trait herbicide stack provides tolerance to Alite 27 herbicide, BASF’s latest herbicide for cotton. It contains the active ingredient, isoxaflutole,...
BASF Opens Application Submissions For Cotton Clubs
FiberMax and Stoneville cotton growers can now apply to join BASF’s FiberMax One Ton Club and Stoneville Legacy Club.
The application deadline for the FiberMax One Ton Club is Feb. 28, 2022. Printed qualification...
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...
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 annual Seed Variety Guide is published in the November issue of Cotton Farming. Cottonseed companies from across the Cotton Belt provide information about their headliners for the upcoming season to assist growers in making varietal choices.
Some of the...
BASF has added three new cottonseed varieties to its cotton portfolio.
Based on input from on-farm testing through BASF Agronomic Performance Trials and other company trials, BASF will launch one new FiberMax cotton seed variety – FM 1730GLTP — and...
BASF has introduced two new cotton seed treatment packages, Core and Prime, that include fungicides as well as Copeo Seed Treatment nematicide. The packages are commercially available on all FiberMax and Stoneville seed varieties through local BASF-authorized cottonseed sub-agents...
Cotton producers who grew Stoneville cotton seed were recognized this week for their harvests at the annual Stoneville Legacy Club celebration held in Destin, Florida. Now in its fourth year, the club honors cotton growers for their high yields...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
BASF plans to launch one new cotton variety for the 2020 season, sticking to its belief that any new release should offer a benefit over existing ones.
“We tested five experimental lines last year and...
