by Libbie Johnson | Jul 31, 2020
– Panhandle farmers routinely plant and harvest an excellent cotton crop, but that is only the first step in making fiber into clothes. Cotton Incorporated is working constantly for the American producer to get product sold. One of their products, The...
by Zane Grabau | Jul 24, 2020
Reniform nematode is a major pest of cotton. Unlike many other nematodes, it causes problems in a range of soils, including those with lower sand content. Management of this nematode currently relies on nematicide application and crop rotation. Fortunately, resistant...
by external | Jul 17, 2020
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics – USDA’s June 30 Acreage Report said US cotton growers planted 12.185 million acres this year. Using that planted acreage and assuming average yield and abandonment for the past 10 years, last week’s Crop...
by external | Jun 26, 2020
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics – Futures Prices USDA’s Acreage report, the first estimate of actual acres planted, will be out next week on Tuesday, June 30th. USDA’s Prospective Plantings report back at the end of March said that...
by external | Jun 19, 2020
Thursday—June 18, 2020 Here’s the situation and the question on everyone’s mind. It’s now past mid-June. Typically by this time, the market has presented growers with at least one “decent” opportunity to market/price a portion of the upcoming crop. Well, I doubt...
by Doug Mayo | Jun 19, 2020
This week’s featured video is one I created to share something neat that I saw recently. Hurricane Michael devastated farms in Jackson County, but many of the local farms have rebuilt their facilities better than before. One such example is the new...
