MARY HIGHTOWER
JONESBORO, ARKANSAS
For Tina Gray Teague, it all started with ladybugs.
“My earliest memories are on my family’s cotton farm in Caraway,” she said. “Out on the farm, I was fascinated with ladybugs, and I collected jars and jars of them.
“When I...
SEBE BROWN
JACKSONVILLE, TENNESSEE
Plant bug numbers are increasing across the landscape, and squaring applications are right around the corner. Silking corn, blooming soybeans, and flowering weeds all contribute to large increases in plant bug populations that eventually move into both...
NATIONAL COTTON COUNCIL
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE
The National Cotton Council (NCC) welcomes the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee’s release of a Farm Bill 2.0 discussion draft and urges strong bipartisan support for this proposal as it advances through the Senate.
"We appreciate...
Global 2026/27 Cotton Ending Stocks Projected Lowest in 8 Years
LESLIE MEYER AND TAYLOR DEW
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The latest U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cotton projections for 2026/27 (August–July) world ending stocks is 71.1 million bales, a 7-percent (5.5-million-bale) decrease from 2025/26...
Contact: Vanessa Beeson
STARKVILLE Mississippi
Cotton is the world’s leading source of natural textile fiber, but much of its genetic history remains a mystery. Mississippi State scientists are part of an international team investigating when and where cotton was first domesticated....
COTTON INCORPORATED
CARY, NORTH CAROLINA
As awareness of microplastics continues to grow among consumers, brands and retailers, Cotton Incorporated is expanding its efforts this July to educate the textile industry and consumers about the benefits of natural fibers and the role...
ANA MORALES-ONA SMITH, DR. GERSON DRESCHER, DR. TRENT ROBERTS AND DR. ZACH TREADWAY
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
Quick Takeaways
On Potassium (K) deficient soils, unfertilized cotton may produce only 35% to 79% of its potential yield.
K deficiencies can reduce yield before visual...
DOUGLAS AMARAL
TIFTON, GEORGIA
Sulfur (S) has quietly become one of the most important secondary nutrients in Georgia cotton production. Twenty or thirty years ago, sulfur deficiencies in cotton were relatively uncommon because growers received a steady supply of sulfur from...
DOMINIC RESIG
PLYMOUTH, NORTH CAROLINA
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...
LARS VAN DOREMALEN
BETTER COTTON INITIATIVE
It’s spring 2026, and large parts of Western Europe have already been thrust into intense heat. The United Kingdom, Ireland and France registered record temperatures for the month of May, while wildfires were reported across...
BEN MCKNIGHT
TEXAS
As of June 9, rainfall across much of Texas in late May and early June have helped to ease very dry conditions across much of the state. Additional precipitation seems to be in the extended weather forecast for...
BRIAN PIERALISI
MISSISSIPPI
Mother nature never gets tired of throwing curve balls at us in Mississippi! We had the driest spring that I can remember. Farmers were planting soybeans in March and running out of moisture in April causing some growers...
CAMP HAND
GEORGIA
In Georgia, we always plant about a quarter of our crop in the first couple of weeks in June, and we still have really good yield potential in those situations. But our margin for error goes down on...
JOSH LEE
ALABAMA
The 2026 cotton planting season saw a variety of weather patterns and rainfall. In the early and middle part of April, temperature conditions were ideal for cotton, yet there was very little moisture available.
Getting later into April into...
KEITH EDMISTEN
NORTH CAROLINA
Guy Collins and I were talking about the crop this morning (June 8). We concluded that we are in a pretty good spot right now. It has even been a little more boring than usual for us, which...
