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Andy Graves
Graves Agronomy Service Inc.
Clarksdale, Mississippi
I grew up working with my dad on the farm and at his retail, fertilizer and commercial application business. When I went to college, I checked cotton and rice with a...
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...
⋅ BY DOMINIC REISIG & ANDERS HUSETH ⋅
Bollgard® 3 ThryvOn™ cotton with XtendFlex® has now received full commercialization for 2023 planting. Our programs have worked with the toxin expressed in ThryvOn cotton since 2014, looking at both basic and...
Looking Back To Move Forward
Backpedal to 2021. That season was an eye-opener for Whit Player, Bishopville, South Carolina, cotton grower. He had purchased a new planter with granular applicator boxes.
Unsure of exactly what he wanted to do with the...
⋅ BY GRANT SAUM ⋅
UNION CITY, TENNESSEE
During the past two springs, many Mid-South producers faced cold, wet temperatures when planting their cotton crop. These harsh weather conditions can cause young cotton plants to grow slowly and sit idle waiting...
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Trey Bullock
Bullock's Ag Consulting
Hattiesburg, Mississippi
I grew up in Greenwood in the heart of the Mississippi Delta where I worked for consultant Jim McCrory every summer in high school and through college. After graduating, I had an...
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James “Wish” Patterson
James A. Patterson Consulting
Pickens, Arkansas
I grew up in an agricultural community in southeast Arkansas where my uncle had a farm with cotton in the mix. Later, while I was working as an assistant coach,...
Nematodes, Thrips And That Haircut
On Dec. 7, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. Clyo, Georgia time, Clayton Waller parked his cotton picker, filed some miscellaneous paperwork and headed to town to tackle the one thing woefully behind schedule — a haircut....
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• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
Arkansas farmer Marty White grew up working side by side in the field with his mother, father and sisters. They were a close family who believed in the importance of...
San Joaquin Valley growers are again in the unfortunate position of having to deal with the after-effects of below-normal rainfall and a reduced snowpack. We already know of many planned reductions in irrigation district water allocations that may impact...
There are many risk factors associated with production agriculture — many of them including aspects that producers cannot control. Weather, rainfall and pressures from cotton pests are all factors with a large impact on plant growth and maturity.
Scott Graham,...
• By Scott Graham •
As the 2021 cotton production season approaches, it is time to start preparing for thrips management.
Thrips are the dominate insect pest of seedling cotton in Alabama. Each year, thrips infest 100% of the acres planted...
Life in 2020 was dominated by COVID-19, however, the work continued for cotton producers. While the Alabama cotton industry had an unusual weather season, no one cotton pest dominated the growing season.
Alabama Cooperative Extension System entomologists Scott Graham and...
• By Scott Stewart •
It’s been a challenge getting our crops in the ground, and our planting dates are really stretched out. It is especially important that our late planted cotton gets off to a good start to make...
• By Guy Collins and Dominic Reisig •
This planting season has been frustrating to say the least. We had a five-day stretch of good planting weather during May 13-17 and intermittently at other times during May, as planting was...
