Planting Intentions Report Shows More Cotton in 2017

Dan March 31, 2017 Cotton

It looks like there will be more cotton acreage in 2017, at least if March 31st’s Planting Intentions Report from USDA’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) is realized. Bianca Pruneda with NASS in Washington, D.C. has the numbers.

Protect Farmworkers From Extreme Summer Heat
The University of Georgia College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences (UGA/CAES) Cooperative Extension recently published an article to help protect farmworkers from extreme summer heat. UGA CAES Extension specialists Pam Knox, Rolando Orellana and Anna Scheyett contributed information to the article by UGA CAES writer Emily Cabrera. A shortened, edited version of the article follows: […]
AI To Help Growers Improve Soil Health
Someday soon, farmers might use technology equivalent to Siri or Alexa to check the status of their soil’s quality. Anastasia Kritharoula, a doctoral student in the Soil Science Artificial Intelligence lab of the University of Florida, works under the supervision of Nikolaos Tziolas, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) assistant professor […]