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Working and training with her mother, in 2019 Hallie Shoffner took the lead as CEO and continues to focus on growing the business, searching for opportunities in specialty crops and value-added production.
Zalo herbicide is registered for early to mid-post-emergence use to control a broad spectrum of broadleaf and grass weeds.
No step is too big for Top Producer finalist, PJ Haynie. Deep family roots are the foundation of his farming legacy.
Forty million dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton acres would be directly impacted by the ruling the U.S. District Court of Arizona in Tucson made Tuesday. EPA has not said when it will respond to the court’s decision.
“These microbes are naturally occurring. They are on every plant that you would ever see, on the salad you eat, on the grass that you grow, on the trees that you look at, and everything in between,” Smith says.
West Texas is the largest cotton production area in the country, but after battling drought and heat, area farmers say the dryland crop is a failure, and the irrigated acres are only yielding half of normal.
Neil Lee’s cotton dealt with cool weather early on, which stunted the crop. It then turned off hot and dry. At harvest, he was thrilled to find “money bolls” at the bottom of the plant.
After a year of struggles in 2022, this year’s crop reaped weather that was much more favorable for growing cotton. Burlison, Tenn., farmer Brad Williams describes this year’s growing season as almost perfect.
After moving the family farm from Canada to Mississippi in the 1970s, change became part of the family culture for the Jack family of Silent Shade Planting Company - winners of the 2023 Top Producer of the Year Award.
When a Tennessee farming family decided to build a small rice mill, they triggered a suburban uproar and social media war.