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The article offers information on Andy Wendland, recipient of the 2024 Farm Press/The Cotton Foundation High Cotton Award for the Southeast, highlighting his dedication to stewardship, quality production, and leadership in farming. Topics include the diverse operations of Autauga Farming Company, the challenges and strategies of cotton production, and the sustainable leadership role Andy holds in various agricultural organizations.

The article focuses on the recent legal decision by an Arizona federal court to ban dicamba herbicides for the 2024 growing season, impacting over three-quarters of U.S. cotton production. Topics include the court's judgment, the National Cotton Council's concerns about reduced production and economic challenges, and the call for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to appeal the ruling and explore options to mitigate the damage.

The article presents the discussion on farmers thinking about committing some of their land, even their productive land, to solar leases.

In mid-August, EPA staffers visited Georgia cotton farmers to hear how and why farmers need and use pesticides. @NCottonCouncil organized 3-day EPA tour with @UGAExtension Farmers, leaders, Extension, EPA talk on real farms. [Extracted from the article]

The Sunbelt Ag Expo Darrell Williams Research Farm located at Spence Field in Moultrie, Ga., has been a primary research location for University of Georgia Extension's efforts to test and develop programs to help Southeast farmers sustainably manage weeds. University of Georgia Extension weed specialist Stanley Culpepper will be one of several UGA Extension specialists and researchers speaking at tour stops on the 2022 Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day July 21. [Extracted from the article]

Ossoff was reminded during the meeting that government support to farmers through the farm bill doesn't amount to a "slush" fund for farmers. The skyrocketing cost of production, improving access to global markets and workable farm safety net programs in the next farm bill were policy points Georgia peanut farmers recently discussed with their senators. [Extracted from the article]

The article offers information on Larry Ford, Southeast states winner of the High Cotton award from Florida, U.S. It further discusses his leadership in agriculture with a mind to caring for the land, the cotton industry and his more than a bit of endurance against adversity; fire and burned up during his 2018 harvest; and using soil tensiometer in most fields, which deliver data to his phone to help schedule irrigation.

Over the last two decades, Georgia's cotton industry has invested more than $2 billion to manage glyphosate-resistant pigweed, and that's just one state. Land-grant scientists and cotton seed and technology companies have done outstanding jobs delivering new, high-yielding traits and information to help growers combat production-robbing pests and conditions, factors that help keep growers growing cotton in the Southeast, and in other major producing regions of the country. A little over two decades ago, growers and specialists began to suspect pigweed in Georgia wasn't surrendering as it should to glyphosate applied over-the-top of tolerant seed traits. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the U.S. peanut industry's efforts to combat aflatoxin challenges, as of October 2022. Topics covered include the session on aflatoxin presented by Premium Peanut president Karl Zimmer during the annual Georgia Peanut Tour, how aflatoxin cost the industry in 2021 and the funding received by the industry. It also cites the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Peanut Lab.

The article offers information on the The National Cotton Council coordinated the visit as part of the Cotton Foundation's 2022 Educational Outreach Program where staffers came from the chemical safety, pesticide programs and other Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) departments. It discusses that the goal was to gain a more thorough understanding of the challenges U.S. cotton producers face and the creative strategies they employ in managing weeds, insects, nematodes and diseases.

For his land-focused approach to environmentally and economically sustainable cotton and his dedicated leadership for the industry, Lee Cromley is the 2022 Farm Press/Cotton Foundation High Cotton Award winner for the Southeastern States. Lee sacrificed a significant portion of his time and finances to support these efforts", Harris says in a support letter for Cromley's nomination. Cromley says cotton farmers, all farmers, learn to tolerate the good seasons with the not-so-good seasons. [Extracted from the article]

James and Jonathan now work 2,600 acres, or about 980 acres of yellow corn and 199 acres of white corn with the rest in soybeans, peanuts and winter wheat. James and Jonathan Hitchcock try things, taking calculated chances, or maybe even a gamble. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the legal in-season use of auxin herbicides in the 2017 cropping season by the Southeast cotton and soybean growers, in which the federal and state level had reminded farmers to know where not to spray auxins. It mentions the statement of Stanley Culpepper, University of Georgia Extension weed specialist, regarding the issue.

Alan Lowman picked up the smart tablet, made a few swipes on the screen. The boll weevil eradication program hit its stride in Georgia, as it did across the South, in the late-1980s with an intensive treatment and trapping push. Lowman heads up the Georgia Boll Weevil Eradication Program, a post he started in 2018, the same year a category 5 hurricane brought a bunch of bad to the region, including devastating the cotton crop, and by proximity boll weevil traps. [Extracted from the article]

Graph: https://www.farmprogress.com/sites/cet.com/files/GA-cover-crop-study-biomass-4.jpg Robbie Faust, left, and Seth Mcallister, UGA Extension agent in Terrell County, Ga., in early October on Faust's southwest Georgia farm, where they are working on a two-year cover crop study. After seeing this first-year's results on the cover crop plots, Faust said he might plant more acres of the Rye+vetch mix on his farm outside of the research trial. As part, we want to show growers the potential biomass that can be generated from a cover crop if it is planted by early November, in this case Nov. 1, as opposed to the December-January plantings that often occurs in our area", Mcallister said. [Extracted from the article]

Both harvesters have the new John Deere 13.6L PowerTech engine and hydraulic power module, improving fuel efficiency, according to the company, by up to 20% for the CP770 and up to 15% for the CS770. For 2022, John Deere will target increased capacity and efficiency with the company's third generation of round-bale cotton harvesters, the CP770 picker and CS770 stripper. [Extracted from the article]

The article features James and Jonathan Hitchcock, the brothers from Georgia whose farming path has settled on a non-genetically modified organism (GMO) crop rotation. Topics include comments from James on growing non-GMO, their yields and production in 2021, and the start of their farming in partnership with their father Waylan, in Washington County, Georgia.

The article discusses regulatory challenges on proven products used by growers. It mentions supply shortage on preferred products and potentially massive price increases for herbicides, price increases for herbicides; and also mentions pre-emptive regulatory path to reduce environmental or human risks from pesticides based on suggestive evidence and not necessarily science-based evidence.

USDA National Agricultural Statistics says by May 9 the Alabama cotton crop was 27% planted. Keep the crop well-watered to sustain steady growth, good fruit retention and boll fill as well as good overall plant health. Weather across much of the lower Southeast has been wet this spring, putting field preparation and cotton planting behind in many locations. [Extracted from the article]

If you remember how it was to grow cotton prior to the successful purge of the notorious boll weevil, you probably have gray hair. I have gray hair, but let's say I was still pretty young when the Boll Weevil Eradication Program came to our little corner of Georgia in the late 1980s. Though eradicated from most of the Cotton Belt, it's good to remember the boll weevil still lives on planet earth and there is no boll weevil-resistant cotton. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports on the High Cotton Award that honors outstanding cotton production, coupled with exceptional stewardship of the land in the U.S. sponsored by the periodical "Farm Press" through a grant to the Cotton Foundation. Topics discussed include information on Nick McMichen, the Southeast winner who farms with his family at Centre, Alabama and cotton farmer Joe Huerkamp of Macon, Mississippi.

The article focuses on High Cotton Award 2018 winners including Ron Rayner of Goodyear, Arizona, Merlin Schantz of Hydro, Oklahama and Nick McMichen of Alabama.

The article profiles American cotton grower Nick McMichen of Alabama who won Farm Press/Cotton Foundation's 2018 High Cotton Awards for the southeast states category due to his outstanding conservation practices.

The article offers information on cotton growing in southerneast U.S. and damages to cotton yield. Topics discussed include views of extension cotton specialist Jared Whitaker on the appearance of cotton plant due to environmental conditions; impact of whitefly epidemic on the cotton; and impact of Hurricane Irma on cotton.

Early on, Garrett Dixon wasn't sure he'd become a full-time farmer. Dixon searched out and found farmer mentors who knew how to grow cotton, and he turned to the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, particularly his local agent, and that set him on the right path. He is pictured in his 2020 cotton field with Ron Smith, longtime Extension entomologist at Auburn University, and Shane Smith, Garrett's crop consultant. b He added peanuts for a rotation in 2019. [Extracted from the article]

During a Dec. 8 web event, the PhytoGen cotton team announced the official availability of two new cotton varieties with resistance to both reniform and root knot nematodes, plus a new variety specific for the lower Southeast. Part of the PhytoGen Horizon Network of cotton producers, Moon planted the new resistant varieties in 2019 and 2020 and saw 200-pound to 300-pound yield increases over susceptible varieties. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses that blue ribbon to a boll weevil trap, maybe to celebrate the Boll Weevil Eradication Program, but more likely, someone saw the boll weevil trap as a good spot to proclaim the birth of a healthy baby boy. Either way, it was creative.

The article discusses that ALAN LOWMAN PICKED up the smart tablet, made a few swipes on the screen, and the map popped up. There was one just up the road that would be good to go check.

The article discusses research study on Faust's southwest Georgia farm. Topics discussed include focus to measure the biomass of four cover crop mixes planted based on sampled dry material produced from the cover; effort of covers' biomass in some spots of the denser plots; and benefit of a cover and organic matter.

The Sunbelt Ag Expo Field Day will take place July 23 and draw agricultural scientists, Extension personnel and industry experts to provide insight on technologies and practices farmers use to put an edge on their operations, but the event will be a little different. Cotton Cotton genetics and variety packages continue to evolve with new technologies becoming more widely available and adopted by growers. The Expo farm is part of Deltapine's New Product Evaluator program, and many of the same varieties grown at Expo are grown by farmers across the Cotton Belt as part of the NPE program. [Extracted from the article]

For example, Palmer amaranth, or pigweed, populations resistant to Protoporphyrinogen oxidase herbicides, are confirmed in Georgia now, said Stanley Culpepper, University of Georgia Extension weed specialist. 240 Ounces But Culpepper treated Palmer amaranth plants from another population at the same time with Reflex at a 240-ounce-per-acre rate, yes, at a 100-times higher rate than the controlled plants, plus surfactant. [Extracted from the article]

The recently released prospective planting report shows a jump in peanuts and corn with Southeastern cotton acres holding about steady. However, demand is also driving the market reactions right now with COVID disrupting consumer behavior and food markets, oil price situation impacting corn and a slowed global economy", he said in an interview April 2. [Extracted from the article]

Larry Ford says you can't move forward if you keep looking back, and nothing's guaranteed. You can farm for many years, in my case more than 50, but you haven't farmed this year, yet", said Ford, 74, on a September morning as he watched the round-bale picker move across the field outside Greenwood, nestled in the center of Florida's Panhandle. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses about how has to grow cotton prior to the successful purge of the notorious boll weevil, probably have gray hair.

The article discusses that Garrett Dixon's new farm operation. It mentions that Dixon searched out and found farmer mentors who knew how to grow cotton, and he turned to the Alabama Cooperative Extension Service. It discusses the working of federation and Extension Service along with Future Farmers of America (FFA).

The article focuses on potassium deficiency long-running problem in Southeast cotton. Topics include K-problem has been a moving target for several years, varying from field to field, within a single field and year to year, and the potassium deficiency is probably our biggest nutrient problem on cotton in Georgia and in the Southeast.

The article focuses on October as harvest progressed and lower Southeast cotton growers increasingly became concerned with the unusually high level of extraneous matter being reported in cotton samples.

The article focuses on 2020 turned into a fragmented cotton season including the Southeast gins have finished ginning good cotton, but one thing hindered some locations and it got worse as harvest progressed.

Southeast cotton grows eyed topping last year's hurricane-ravaged crop, with one state on a track to match a 70-year record. "Preliminary reports indicate cotton crop damage ranging from severe to very little, with the most damage obviously in near-coastal counties and the Blacklands, but we will know more as time elapses", said Dr. Guy Collin, NC State Extension cotton agronomist, on Sept. 6. Georgia cotton production was forecast at 2.70 million bales, up 38 percent from 2018's hurricane-damaged crop. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the Farm Press March Madness Planting Season conducted by the periodical and the first round of tournament play included peanuts versus corn, cotton versus soybean and hemp versus tobacco.

The article offers information on use of a helicopter by farmer Brad Thompson over his cotton plants farm in Seminole County, Georgia to spray crop protectants from fungicides to herbicides. Topics discussed include enrollment of Thompson in Tallahassee Helicopters flight school to learn basics of flying a helicopter, spray of peanuts, cotton and soybeans by using helicopter and use of the R44 Raven 2 helicopter from Robison Helicopter Co.

The article discusses the efforts of The Cotton Board to help cotton farmers asses and promote their crops in the market. Also cited are how the board supervise and operates the Cotton Research & Promotion Program for upland cotton in the U.S. through its contractor Cotton Inc., the claim by board chairman Jimmy Webb that the demand for cotton will grow in the near future, and the board's efforts to convince farmers to join the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol.

The article focuses on the Southeast cotton growers face extreme economic pressure due to drastic reductions in global cotton sales and prices inflamed by the COVID-19 pandemic; and mentions that cotton growers have battled glyphosate-resistant pigweed for more than 15 years in Georgia, and continue to win, but it cost them billions in lost production and control measures over the years.

The article offers information on the challenges faced by the agriculture industry due to the coronavirus outbreak, along with information on the impacts of the Covid-19 on the cotton prices and the agricultural stock market.

The article evaluates the CP770 cotton picker, a third generation of round-bale cotton harvesters, from John Deere, which is showcased at the 43rd Sunbelt Ag Expo.