World Cotton Supply Growing, So is Demand for U.S. Cotton

Increases in global production and US export estimates are in USDA’s April cotton outlook. Rod Bain reports.

Sweet Orange Scab Quarantine Expansion
The California area quarantined for sweet orange scab (SOS) in the Burbank, Los Angeles and Long Beach areas of Los Angeles County and the Anaheim and Garden Grove areas of Orange County has been expanded. The expansion was made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) in cooperation with […]
Combining OTC Injections With Plant Defense Inducers
By Lauren Fessler Mathews, Ana Redondo and Ozgur Batuman The positive impact of oxytetracycline (OTC) trunk injections for citrus production in HLB-infected trees has been well established. Additionally, there has been extensive work showing that plant defense inducers (PDIs) can help boost tree health and reduce symptom development from a variety of pathogens. Based on […]