Learn how to test soil early, prepare well and plant cotton into the right conditions for uniform stands and lasting yield ...

USDA’s first Crop Progress report of the season was released earlier this week. It revealed U.S. growers are running behind planting this year’s cotton crop. One meteorologist says drought may be a ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - More American farmers are expected to plant cotton this year as prices remain high thanks to demand from the growing middle class in China and India and a short supply ...

Cottonseeds could help reduce hunger and add new revenue for farmers. One researcher has been working for decades to make ...

Planting cotton early in the planting window will allow growers to escape peak stink bug pressure and thereby possibly eliminate or minimally reduce the number of sprays required to manage them, ...

Cotton growers can produce more cotton if they plant early, but not without irrigation. That's the finding of an article published in the September-October 2010 Agronomy Journal, a publication of the ...

TULIA - It's a question West Texas farmers never thought they'd have to ask. How much rain is too much? Wet fields and cool soil temperatures have delayed a planting season that would be bustling at ...

I was a teenager in the 1970s and just beginning my love affair with rural Arkansas. During visits to my grandparents' home in Des Arc, I enjoyed going on long drives by myself through the Grand ...

LAMB COUNTY, Texas (KCBD) - In Lubbock County, farmers are currently working hard to get cotton in the ground before the end of late planting Monday. Some producers on the South Plains are now looking ...