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Textiles making comeback in Western North Carolina
The approach represents an innovative way of reviving Western North Carolina’s textile industry.
Enrollment Opens for Cotton Transition Assistance Program
Cotton growers can begin enrolling for the Cotton Transition Assistance Program (CTAP) on August 11, according to an announcement released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency. Program enrollment ends October 7.
EPA’s Water Police, Part One: Coming to Your Farm?
Proposal would free government to regulate ‘virtually every body of water in the United States’
2014 N.C. boll weevil assessment at $1 per acre
The board of the Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation of North Carolina has set the 2014 boll weevil assessment at $1 per acre of cotton.
Chipotle Unnecessarily Tears Down Agriculture to Build a Brand
In the boardrooms of Madison Avenue, they call it “values branding”: a marketing strategy in which a company tries to instill a feeling of righteousness in the customers who buy its products.
But what kind of values would inspire a corporation to wage a smear campaign against America’s farmers?
Final Planting Date Changes for Cotton Insurance Coverage
RALEIGH, N.C., February 24, 2014 – The USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced final planting date changes for the cotton program in participating counties across North Carolina and Virginia beginning with the 2014 crop year. The updated final planting date is May 25.
Three new ‘Focus on Cotton’ Webcasts Give Producers a Good Head Start for the Growing Season
Variety selection, weed management strategies, and nematodes are often at the front of cotton producers minds during the winter and early spring months.
New crop cotton may offer best prices at planting
Because U.S. cotton supplies are expected to increase in 2014-15, market analysts believe the best time to price new crop cotton will be during planting season.
North Carolina’s BB Griffin elected chairman of Cotton Incorporated
- North Carolina cotton producer and ginner BB Griffin was elected chairman of Cotton Incorporated during the recent Cotton Board/Cotton Incorporated joint board meeting in December.
Precision ag is a system, not single practices.
For the Karcher family farm, variable-rate application of inputs means keeping up with almost constant change in software, hardware, GPS and equipment. But the need for basic agronomy knowledge is always the same.