Kacey Watson
AUBURN UNIVERSITY,
The nation’s top young farm family is anchored in Alabama agriculture, with ties to Auburn University and Alabama Extension that span generations and continue to shape their operation today.
The American Farm Bureau Federation named College of Agriculture...
Christi Short, Southwest Regional Communications Manager, The Cotton Board.
For many years, growers and researchers in the Southern Rolling Plains of Texas have worked to establish a research facility that would serve the region’s growers and provide a permanent home...
Whitney Crow, Extension Entomologist
Tyler Towles, Research Entomologist
Don Cook, Entomologist
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Update (July 30, 2026 – Afternoon): Since this article was published earlier today, Twospotted Cotton Leafhopper/ Cotton Jassid have been confirmed in a cotton field near Lucedale,...
Logan Simon, Southwest Area Agronomist
Anthony Zukoff, Extension Entomologist
– Garden City
As cotton in Kansas begins setting squares, our attention shifts from monitoring thrips to monitoring cotton fleahoppers and lygus bugs (also known as tarnished plant bugs). Cotton should be scouted...
Dominic Reisig
As cotton starts to square, it’s time for growers to check their fields every week for tarnished plant bugs. These pests can hurt your yield, especially early in the season. If we protect the first squares, we can help...
Andrew Griffith, Livestock Marketing Specialist
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Corn, Soybeans, Cotton, and Wheat up for the week
Fuel
This week, Tennessee fuel have remained relatively stable over the past month but have increased in recent days and are substantially higher than a year ago. Current...
Texas Crop and Weather Report
Karn Dhingra
After two years of low prices, cotton prices rallied — though Texas growers’ fortunes still depend heavily on where they farm, said a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
John Robinson, Ph.D., an AgriLife Extension economist-cotton and...
Don Shurley
UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics
The latest USDA numbers could help to add some support to the market. No promises and the outlook uncertain, but the current numbers could be viewed as encouraging.
First of all, some production and...
Guy Collins
North Carolina
As I write this June 30, I think everyone is very thankful for recent rains across most of the state. We went into this year in a moisture deficit, starting back in March and April, and we...
Ben McKnight
TEXAS
As I write this in early July, cotton in the Lower Rio Grande Valley is progressing with recent hot and dry weather, with some fields approaching 30% open boll. By the time you are reading this, cotton harvest...
Camp Hand
GEORGIA
As we enter August, trips across the field with a sprayer are regular occurrences. Whether it is boron, a plant growth regulator, an insecticide for stinkbugs, plant bugs, or, heaven forbid, the “j-word” (aka jassid), spraying cotton in...
Josh Lee
ALABAMA
As the crop enters August, there are numerous management decisions that have already been made by this point, but we are not yet at the finish line. At the time I’m writing this article, it is raining...
Ken Legé
TEXAS
Cotton growing conditions across much of the Texas High Plains and Southern High Plains have been favorable to date, supported by timely and widely distributed rainfall events coupled with relatively moderate summer temperatures. Unlike many recent seasons characterized...
Randy Norton
ARIZONA
As of early July, the 2026 Arizona cotton crop ranges from early bloom in the higher elevations of the state to fields approaching cutout in the extreme low deserts of southwestern Arizona. The warm, late winter and early...
Zachary Treadway
ARKANSAS
It’s hard to believe we are already in July, but here we are, just after America’s semi quincentennial, and we are well on our way to making a cotton crop. We are now in the dog days of...
