As cotton producers prepare for #Plant25, over 20 new cotton varieties are commercially available. Here is the annual roundup, featuring the 2025 releases that provide an array of options for farmers ...

I started attending the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in 1985, so I think this year represents my ruby anniversary. New Orleans was fun – good friends, good food, and lots of discussion about the cotton ...

If cotton had been selling for $2 a pound when I was a kid, my whole life might have changed. One of my first memories is picking cotton with my mom in a field beside the frame house she and dad ...

Agricultural trade is often broken down into dollars and cents. Twenty percent of U.S. agriculture is exported. Some commodities like cotton, for example, reach 70% ...

While brand new cotton gins are not an anomaly in the Midsouth, they are few and far between. Tucked up under the bootheel of Missouri in northeast Arkansas, a long-time farm and gin family calculated ...

Lux Research identified six megatrends shaping the food industry in their recent report, “The Food Company of 2050." In the report, Lux outlines what food companies must do to survive and thrive over ...

What does the Dec. 28, 2023, court ruling mean for Michigan tree fruit growers who would still like to use chlorpyrifos against labeled insect pests on bearing trees? In February 2022, the U.S.

Newspaper, website, and magazine headlines which assert that corporations - not families – operate the majority of U.S. farms are simply preposterous. Most farmers and ranchers already know this yet ...

Each year, commercial cotton seed companies bring to U.S. growers new farm-proven varieties, pushing yield potential and quality higher, and, for 2021, new resistance and tolerance technologies.

Over the years, North Dakota farmer Jon Wert grows spring wheat that tops 100 bushels per acre. And 2020 was no different. “We will see how this year’s 105-bushel entry places,” he says following the ...

Mike Pearson talks with Gavin Rhode, the Missouri State FFA Secretary. They talk about Gavin's involvement in the seed stock business. Rhode talks about his involvement in showing cattle and leading ...

Just under four years ago, brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista were in Brazilian prison cells with concrete bunk beds, their multibillion-dollar meat empire near collapse in one of the world’s biggest ...