Construction of new and larger gins mirrors increasing cotton acres in the north Texas High Plains
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
The number and sheer size of cotton gins in the north Texas High Plains continues to grow, fueled by...
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Lance Williams grows PhytoGen® brand varieties in Carson and Armstrong counties in the Texas Panhandle. He recounts his experience with the vigor, yield, quality and storm tolerance of PHY 300 W3FE, PHY 350 W3FE and...
• By Paul Schattenberg •
The Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute encourages landowners to report wild pig sightings and damage using a new first-of-its-kind online tool.
“Landowners throughout Texas are constantly seeing wild pigs and their damage,” says Dr. Jim Cathey, associate...
Bad Verticillium Wilt Years Highlight Need To Choose Tolerant Varieties.
• By Vicky Boyd,
Managing Editor •
Alan Monroe, who farms cotton north of Plainview, Texas, never thought much about Verticillium wilt and the need for selecting varieties with tolerance to the...
• 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...
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension agronomists talk about this year’s RACE trials.
• By Kay Ledbetter •
Much like producers’ fields across the High Plains, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service cotton trials are seeing a significant difference in performance this year between...
Can you say a building watches over a community? Well, I think it can and I know one that does.
These days in a part of Texas where most people don’t naturally think “cotton,” sits a building whose history was...
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
Twitter is known for the limited number of characters allowed for messages. However, the social media platform’s required brevity was no hurdle for West Texas cotton farmer Shawn Holladay this spring. As he posted tweets...
Bayer CropScience recently welcomed 75 new members to the FiberMax Maximizer Club, which recognizes cotton growers who plant FiberMax varieties and harvest at least 1,000 pounds per acre under dryland conditions. Their induction was based on yields from the...
Earl Wayne Sears was a national leader in the cotton industry known for his keen intellect, humble demeanor, long-standing friendships, and devotion to family, community and church.
He passed away on April 3 in Memphis, Tennessee, surrounded by his beloved...
Looking back on the history of a farming operation can sometimes involve measuring the growth in acreage, comparing yield results from one year to another, and calculating the return on investment for improvements made. Another aspect worthy of contemplation...
Despite challenging weather in many production regions in 2017, 188 producers still qualified for the FiberMax One Ton Club, which recognizes growers who harvested 2,000 pounds of lint on irrigated ground using FiberMax varieties. Of those, 30 were first-timers.
Altogether...
Two Texas A&M Studies Examine Optimum Seeding Rates To Maximize Boll Development And Yield
— By Kay Ledbetter —
New and returning cotton producers may want to carefully consider row spacing and seeding rates when they get ready to plant during...
BY TOMMY HORTON
EDITOR
When it comes to optimism about a new crop season, nobody exudes a positive attitude better than Texas cotton producers and ginners. Yes, the state is still in the midst of a three-year drought, but there are...
By Woody Anderson
Colorado City, Texas
As I prepared to plant my cotton here in the Texas Rolling Plains, I once again was reminded that growing cotton without access to crop insurance is an awfully risky venture these days.
Hundreds of dollars...
