News from the Cotton Research and Promotion Program FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 18, 2023 Oklahoma Cotton Producer, Mark Nichols, to Serve as Chairman of the Board & USDA Under Secretary Moffitt Addresses Boards During General Session (MEMPHIS, Tenn.) – The Cotton Board recently held its 2023 Annual Meeting in Durham, North Carolina, along with Cotton Incorporated’s Board of Directors. …
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The National Cotton Council’s Producer Information Exchange program (P.I.E.) will enable Mid-South and Southeast cotton producers to see cotton and other agriculture-related operations in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend regions on August 20-25. After this year’s two P.I.E. tours, more than 1,200 U.S. cotton producers will have been exposed to innovative production practices in Cotton …
Articles in this month’s issue include: Cotton Insect Pest Update (Phillip Roberts) Current Thoughts on the Crop, and Helping Us Collect Data this Winter (Camp Hand) August Climate and Weather Outlook (Pam Knox) Rainfastness of PGR Products (Wade Parker) August is a Critical Month for Management of Target Spot and Areolate Mildew (Bob Kemerait) Cotton Irrigation Considerations for August (David …
In late July, the Commodity Commission Ex-Officio Committee met to make appointments to the Georgia Cotton Commission Board of Directors. Bulloch County cotton farmer Greg Sikes was selected to fill the seat of Lee Cromley, who had served on the Commission’s board since 2011. Morgan County cotton farmer John Ruark and Toombs County cotton farmer Chris Hopkins were each reappointed …
The 2022 Georgia Quality Cotton Awards were presented at the 2023 Georgia Cotton Commission Mid-Year Meeting on July 26, 2023. The awards are co-sponsored by the Georgia Cotton Commission and Bayer Crop Science/Deltapine and administered by the University of Georgia (UGA) Cotton Team. Yangxuan Liu from the UGA Cotton Team conducted the analysis and presented the awards at the event …
By: Joe Martin, President, Southern Cotton Growers, Inc. It is with great pleasure that I announce the hiring of Jim Davis of New Market, Alabama as the next CEO of Southern Cotton Growers, Inc. Raised on a 5th generation family farm which includes cotton as their primary crop, Jim will be only the fourth CEO of the organization that was …
In previous updates, we have talked about the likelihood of Congress passing a new farm bill “on time” which means by September 30th of this year. Through the middle of July, neither the House nor the Senate agriculture committee leadership have released their farm bill drafts. If they don’t release their drafts next week, it appears that this will likely happen during the …
Articles in this month’s issue include: 1. Replacing Nitrogen and Potassium after the June “Red Rains” (Glen Harris) 2. The Flowering Phase of Crop Development (John Snider, Camp Hand, and Josh Lee) 3. Calibrating Nitrogen Side-Dress Applicators (Simer Virk) 4. Pesticide Applications with Spray Drones (Simer Virk) 5. July Mid-Season Cotton Irrigation Considerations (Jason Mallard, David Hall, Phillip Edwards, Daniel …
Henry Sintim, Glendon Harris Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia Nitrogen (N) constitutes 78% of the earth’s atmosphere, and it is present as N2, an inert gas. By conversion, there is 117,000 tons/ac N in the atmosphere [1]. However, plants can not assimilate N in the N2 form, and hence, the need to supply inorganic forms of …
As I am writing this on June 23, the weather is (unfortunately) allowing me to catch up on office work. Since last week, it feels like the weather has been working against us. Between tornadoes and hail, continuous rain, and cool temperatures, it has definitely been a unique year thus far. Although may of us may not be able to …
I have a friend, who is not involved in agriculture per se, who told me he thinks it’s interesting when farmers talk about getting a “red rain”. “You know, when they look at the radar and you got green and yellow and then that heavy red rain”. Seems like we have gotten a lot of “red rains” across the Georgia …
There was a time in the not so distant past when cotton growers did not need to worry about protecting their crop from leaf diseases. That time has passed. Three foliar diseases are expected to affect cotton production in Georgia this year and all of them are likely to become more apparent after the crop begins to bloom, especially as …