by Zane Grabau | Feb 24, 2023
Just as they are in most Florida crops, nematodes are a major pest of cotton. Southern root-knot nematode and reniform nematode are the primary issues. Starting with the 2021 growing season, new tools to manage these nematodes became available: cultivars designated as...
by Doug Mayo | Feb 24, 2023
This week’s featured video shares an innovation for crop irrigation. Rain 360 is an autonomous (self-driving) irrigation unit that can apply up to 1/2″ of water per week in a 160-acre field, 3/4″ per week in a 100-acre field, or 1″ per week in...
by external | Feb 17, 2023
Dr. Scott Graham and Dr. Ron Smith, Auburn Entomologists in “February 16, 2023 Cotton Shorts” The new cotton technology expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) protein Cry51Aa2, referred to as “ThryvOn” and developed by Bayer CropScience, will be...
by external | Feb 17, 2023
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Prices Old crop March futures remain in the now 3-month-old range of mostly 80 to 88 cents. Prices recently seem to have “settled” or “diverged” to 85 to 86 cents. Such a long-standing parallel movement...
by Libbie Johnson | Jan 27, 2023
– In last week’s Cotton Marketing News, we learned more about the seemingly consistent low price of cotton brought on largely by decreased demand. Even with that being the case, cotton is part of the standard crop rotation for many growers in the Panhandle...
by external | Jan 20, 2023
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics 2022 (Old crop), March futures are currently in the neighborhood of 82¢/lb. and continue in a pretty much sideways pattern mostly between 80 and 86¢. The more optimistic upside appears to be at 90¢. I’d put the...
