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Cotton News
USDA released the first crop progress report of the season, and it showed cotton planting is running slightly behind with 4% of the U.S cotton crop currently planted. One meteorologist says drought may be a factor.
The shotgun houses and clapboard shacks are gone, but a child’s toy lingers in farmland rows. Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles.
A new report from Texas A&M Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) a 50% rise in fertilizer prices equates to an average of $128,000 per farm. The largest per-acre impact would falls on rice farms at $62.04 an acre.
Auxin herbicides are devastating to sensitive crops, know your risk.
Coley Bailey, a third-generation grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation behind John Deere’s out-of-the-gate CP770 cotton picker—potentially the most proficient cotton harvesting machine to ever hit U.S. fields.
After the dizzying heights of $1.21 per pound in 2021, the Cotton Belt could see 12 million acres in 2022, and possibly more, contingent on a mercurial La Niña.
After a battle with COVID-19, first generation farmer Chance McMillan didn’t just lose his dad, but a life-long coach. That’s as the two had plans to finally farm full-time as father and son.
Cotton prices are a bright spot for cotton producers across the U.S. As harvest hits high-gear, yields are coming in strong, while prices remain at a 10-year high.
In one of the most heavily ignored and needless catastrophes in recent U.S. history, 548,000 acres of the Mississippi Delta were silently swallowed in 2019 and submerged for five months.
Jacko Garrett’s remarkable 40-year quest to feed the hungry began with a single trailer of grain from his farm and continues today with millions of pounds of grain directed to the needy.