Day two of AG CONNECT Expo 2011 is underway at the Georgia World Congress Center and one booth you see while attending is Agrotain International. . And Agrotain International President Mike Stegmann said Agrotain everyone kows when you fertilize your crop with urea or liquid nitrogen, nitrogen loss starts the moment you apply and they can help control that loss. …
FL Travel Gets Cumbersome for New Ag Commish, State Officials
As new leaders and new rules of the game start to settle in Tallahassee, a new ag commissioner and other state officials may find new challenges in trying to get where they need to go on time and see who they need to see, especially in a state more than a thousand miles long. But the one in charge now …
FL Farm Bureau South Florida Ag Report
This report from Charlie Shinn, Asst Director, Gov’t and Community Affairs, Florida Farm Bureau Federation: South Florida Growers Brace for Water Restrictions Water restrictions will be a certainty by late January or early February without ample rainfall in the District. The South Florida Water Management District Governing Board will meet in Clewiston next week and the amount of available water …
AL Grower Attends Beltwide Cotton Conference
Growers from across the cotton belt are at the 2011 Beltwide Cotton Conference here in Atlanta and one of those is Nick McMichen from Centre, Alabama, who told me he picks up a lot of great information at this event. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, …
Questions on Planting Intentions
With cotton, corn, and soybean prices where they are right now, many are wondering what growers will be planting this year as Tyron Spearman also talks about the tight supplies for all 3 crops. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
UT’s Chris Main is 2011 Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year
ATLANTA (January 5, 2010) – Chris Main, Ph.D., associate professor and Extension cotton specialist with the University of Tennessee, has been recognized by his peers from across the Cotton Belt as the 2011 Extension Cotton Specialist of the Year. Main received the award at the Extension cotton specialists annual banquet on Jan. 5 during the 2011 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in …
GA Grower Chairs Cotton Foundation
The Beltwide Cotton Conferences continue today with a variety of workshops and seminars taking place. I was able to catch up with Chuck Coley, a cotton producer from Vienna, Georgia who is also the Chairman of the Cotton Foundation, and we talked about the foundation and what their efforts involve to help growers across the cotton belt. Download Audio Sponsored …
I Didn’t Know
Farmers and foods we don’t know about. Everett Griner explains. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets Provysol® Fungicide ApartJuly 8, 2025CIR Agriculture Harvester ProductsJuly 1, 2025Nuseed Carinata Covers New GroundOctober 1, 2024
Market Outlook Discussed at Beltwide Cotton Conference
The 2011 Beltwide Cotton Conference is in full swing in Atlanta, Georgia where a good crowd was on hand for the today’s Production Conference. One of the featured speakers was T. Jordan Lea, President of the American Cotton Shippers Association and CEO of Eastern Trading in Greensivlle, South Carolina. I talked with him about the cotton market and whether or …
GCC Encourages Producers to Come On Out For Beltwide
As we are in the midst of the Beltwide Cotton Conference being held in Atlanta through January 7, 2011, the Georgia Cotton Commission’s Karen Nikitopoulos encourages growers to take part of the event as she says the conference is another tool for producers in their quest to grow a high quality and more profitable crop. Download Audio Sponsored ContentWhat Sets …