By Guy Collins and Keith Edmisten •
First of all, we pray that everyone is safe from Hurricane Florence and that damage to homes and property are minimal to none.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone impacted by this storm,...
A Mississippi Delta cotton farmer attributes his success to having top-shelf talent on both the personnel and production fronts.
• By Carroll Smith,
Editor •
The Mississippi Delta is a unique realm of the universe that attracts people from all over the...
At harvest, cotton growers learn how much yield-robbing diseases and pests affected fiber production. This knowledge helps determine the best varieties to plant next season.
Diseases such as bacterial blight and Verticillium wilt are not controlled by in-season crop protection...
• By Denise Attaway •
Most cotton seeds found in individual seed lots are created equally, but not every seed has an opportunity to reach its full potential. Clemson precision agriculture engineer Kendall Kirk wants to help explain why.
Kirk’s goal is...
Arkansas cotton farmer Michael Mangrum is always looking for ways to do things faster and better.
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Editor •
Stories passed down by his maternal grandmother tell how his great-great grandfather and his brothers came from Oklahoma and settled...
In 1983, Mississippi author Willie Morris published a collection of short stories titled “Always Stand In Against the Curve.”
The content primarily focused on small-town baseball and football and the coming of age years for a Southern teenage boy.
Being an...
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While attending Mississippi State University, I learned through the friend of a friend about cotton consulting. I knew from that moment this profession was meant for me. I changed my major from forestry to ag pest...
By mid-June, we reached a critical time for our cotton crop in terms of preserving yield potential as a result of moisture stress. This is not the norm for Arkansas. Some fields continued to produce nodes close to what...
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Growing up in Franklin Parish, Louisiana, I worked on my dad’s farm where he predominately grew cotton for many years. One of my first jobs outside the family operation was helping a local consultant scout cotton....
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Attention hometown heroes! Tell us how Transform WG insecticide has transformed your cotton fields and how $20,000 could improve your community. The fourth annual Transform My Community Contest...
Very little cotton was planted in April this season in Arkansas. Most of our April cotton was planted the last two or three days of the month when planting conditions went from poor to very good. They continued to...
Changing weather patterns have again shaken up the 2018 planting season in the San Joaquin Valley. The good news is we finally got some rain and snowpack in the late winter and very early spring, along with promise of...
As we move into spring, there appears to be widespread optimism for cotton in North Carolina. The 2017 season was successful for most growers, and with the new program and higher prices, the outlook for cotton is strong.
With that...
Mike Goss, pictured here with his son, Lane, farms both dry land and irrigated cotton in the Texas Panhandle. Here, he recounts his 2017 experience with PhytoGen® brandPHY 300 W3FE and PHY 490 W3FE. Goss says his most challenging...
PhytoGen has added five new varieties with WideStrike 3 Insect Protection and the Enlist cotton trait to its 2018 line-up.
These new varieties complement existing PhytoGen brand varieties with WideStrike 3 Insect Protection and the Enlist cotton trait (W3FE), offering...
