Bob Glodt of Plainview, Texas, Cotton Consultant of the Year (CCOY) for 2013, was recently honored at a special reception and dinner at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans. A crowd of more than 150 was on hand...
Red River Crops Conference To Address Variety Of Topics
Producers in the Red River area of Oklahoma and Texas will have a chance to hear an update on several important ag production topics on Jan. 28-29 at the Southwest Technology...
BY TOMMY HORTON
EDITOR
How do you convince 150 farmers and their wives to make a quick trip to Charleston, S.C., just a couple of weeks before Christmas? You make sure that the schedule appeals to everybody.
And that is precisely what...
After months of anticipation, Monsanto has announced that three new cotton varieties will be launched for the Deltapine Class of 2014, including a variety bred for resistance to root-knot nematodes (RKN). The announcement occurred at the Charleston Place Hotel...
BY TOMMY HORTON
EDITOR
Can torrential rains keep a cotton crop from surviving and delivering any kind of yield? If you had talked to the Doyle farm family in Emporia, Va., last July, you would have heard that question.
As a matter...
Dr. Chris Main
Cotton Development Specialist, Dow AgroSciences
Not to say that any cotton season is normal, but as producers approach the end of this one, they do so with a sigh of relief. It’s been a wild, late crop that...
By Tommy Horton
Editor
It might seem a bit early to start thinking about what cotton varieties to plant in 2014 – especially since many producers haven't finished harvesting this year's crop. However, by the time this issue of Cotton Farming...
Luckey Family In West Tennessee Stays Committed To A Rotation Program That Always Works
By Tommy Horton
Editor
The question is heard across the Cotton Belt today with increasing frequency. What motivates a farmer to keep growing cotton in the face of...
MISSOURI
Mike Milam
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DROUGHT CONTINUES IN MISSOURI
Southeast Missouri is blessed with groundwater resources. Irrigation really helped us duringseveral severe droughts within the past five years. The Drought Monitor had our growing area classified as exceptional drought during much of the growing...
Georgia cotton producers have dealt with their fair share of challenges in the past decade. You name it, and they’ve seen it. Drought problems, resistant pigweed, stinkbugs, the loss of a popular cotton seed variety, hurricanes and tropical storms are just a few of the issues that have confronted them while growing cotton.
Nobody ever said it was easy being a crop consultant in eastern Arkansas – mainly because the weather has been downright volatile during the last two years. In 2011, cotton producers in the region were dealing with the Mississippi River and its tributaries flooding to record levels.
As cotton producers across the Belt prepare to make planting decisions for the 2013 season, Deltapine has added three new seed varieties to its lineup. The announcement was made at the company's New Product Evaluator (NPE) summit last month...
BY BRUCE KIRKSEY
AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL
MEMPHIS, TENN.
I have been involved in agricultural research for more than 25 years. Over these years, we in agriculture have experienced some outstanding new technologies, record yields, adverse weather conditions and many, many challenges. I have...
Dr. Joel Faircloth
Pfafftown, N.C.
We are now "in the short rows" of making variety selection decisions. This may be the most critical decision a producer makes. Let's take a look at three elements of variety selection.
Field History
Variety selection should be...
Bringing new farm-based products and processes to cotton farmers is one of the most important goals Cotton Incorporated’s Agricultural and Environ-mental Research Division tries to achieve each year.
“When we are able to bring producers a product that we’ve developed...
