2013 Mid-South Farm and Gin Show photos
Farm Press editors were busy photographing participants and visitors at this year's Mid-South Farm and Gin Show. This photo gallery is the product of their work.
Brazil case continues to stalk cotton industry
The U.S. cotton industry has a lot at stake in the debate over writing a new farm bill, but U.S. cotton producers have more to lose than other U.S. commodity groups if Congress fails to address one overriding issue.
New irrigation publication - ‘most crop for the drop’
Ed Barnes bristles when someone criticizes cotton farmers for using too much water. The director of agricultural and environmental research for Cotton Incorporated used to respond, defensively, that only 36 percent of the cotton grown in the United States is irrigated.
Sample soils now to determine residual nitrogen
Depending on where you farm, 2012 was either too dry, too wet or, as Goldilocks told the three bears, just right.
It will go down in the record books as one of the driest years in decades in the Midwest, Arkansas, western Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, west Tennessee and parts of Texas, and not so bad in the remainder of the Southeast.
