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Malorie Paine
The Cotton Board welcomed its newly appointed members and alternates during a swearing-in ceremony held at the organization’s August board meeting in Scottsdale, Ariz. this month.
Producer members and alternates are nominated to represent their state by USDA certified...
United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service
August 2026
Temporary Removal of Tariffs Pushes India Cotton Imports and Consumption to Record Levels
FIGURE 1
India cotton imports are forecast at a record 4.8 million bales in 2025/26 (August 2025 – July 2026)...
Drs. Phillip Roberts & Alana Jacobson
Luke Crosson
We are in a better position today concerning cotton jassid compared to where we were a year ago. To date, we have detected jassids in 18 counties in Georgia in 2026. This time...
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has launched two new, complementary Sourcing Toolkits to strengthen traceability across cotton supply chains and help suppliers and retailers, brands, and buyers prepare for sourcing Physical BCI Cotton – also known as Traceable BCI...
Authored by: Cheryl Mackowiak, UF/IFAS Crop and Forage Soil Scientist, North Florida Research and Education Center (NFREC) – Quincy
Keeping your land covered with some type of vegetation during the winter months provides various benefits, such as soil erosion protection,...
Washington, D.C.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is asking selected producers to complete the USDA’s annual County Agricultural Production Survey (CAPS). Information reported through the survey helps USDA produce the nation's only official yearly county...
Written by Wiley Ross Greene
Cotton plants showing drought stress and wilted leaves in a dry, sandy field with limited soil moisture.
The extreme heat we are experiencing across Southeast Georgia is creating some difficult irrigation management decisions, particularly for cotton...
Ben McKnight
TEXAS
By the time you are reading this, harvesting across the Coastal Bend and Upper Gulf Coast should be in full swing. As I write this in early August, Lower Rio Grande Valley producers are getting the crop out...
Brian Pieralisi
MISSISSIPPI
I am writing this Aug. 5, 2026. Our crop is looking pretty good despite a few early setbacks. June rains put the crop under some heavy weed pressure, but all of that is behind us now and we...
Camp Hand
GEORGIA
The 2026 cotton crop in Georgia has been a roller coaster. In April, we were afraid we wouldn’t get planted because it was too dry, and we weren’t able to finish planting in June because it was too...
Josh Lee
ALABAMA
While driving across Alabama these past weeks, the cotton crop seems to be progressing well overall. There are areas in the state that seem to be getting more rain than others. It seems like when I look...
Keith Edmisten
NORTH CAROLINA
The cotton crop has come a long way after struggling earlier this season. We thought the crop would be on the late side due to drought early on. The crop seems to have caught up and, for the...
Ken Legé
TEXAS
West Texas entered the 2026 growing season with timely rainfall that supported planting operations across much of the region. However, inadequate subsoil moisture reserves left many fields vulnerable to later-season stress. Frequent rainfall events continued in many areas...
Tyson Raper
TENNESSEE
Tennessee’s 2026 cotton crop has been a pleasant one to walk. A decent mid-April window allowed several to slip a few more April acres in than normal. Although they emerged from a cool, damp start to May a little thinner...
