UT's Tyson Raper is Cotton Researcher of the Year.

Agriculture industry leaders have bestowed the title of Cotton Researcher of the Year to the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture's Tyson Raper. The award committee noted Raper's work with high-residue cover crops, nutrient rate optimization and his current work evaluating DD60's - the formula for calculating crop heat units - for modern cotton varieties. [Extracted from the article]