Cotton Incorporated Launches Cotton Cultivated Website

 

cotton cultivated computerCotton Incorporated has launched Cotton Cultivated, a new website designed to give the cotton growing community quick and easy access to important industry information.Cotton Cultivated (cottoncultivated.cottoninc.com) integrates Web sites, downloadable documents, social media and real-time news feeds that have been “cultivated” in an effort to reduce the time spent sorting through pages of search results.

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“The cotton growing community has indicated that searching for and isolating cotton production information can quickly become an overwhelming task,” says Ryan Kurtz, director of agricultural research for Cotton Incorporated and lead on the launch of the new site. “The Cotton Cultivated site is aimed at helping users find cotton-specific information as quickly and easily as possible.”

The site’s home page is a dashboard for easy access to all of the site features and information.  In addition to a customized search tool, there are four primary widgets on the home page:

  • Cotton News displays recent cotton-related stories of national, regional or global interest from agricultural media sources.
  • Daily Monitoring provides local weather conditions, current cotton market reports (fiber and seed), and the latest crop quality report summarized by Cotton Incorporated.
  • Research & Reports displays the latest information uploaded to the site. Materials in this section are downloadable directly from the Web site. The buttons in this widget allow flipping through the three most recent research reports added. To browse all of the material available, visitors can click on “See all Research and Reports.” Once all material is displayed, there is an option to filter by growing region and topic.
  • The Resources Directory works just like the Research & Reports widget but provides a preview of the most recently-added web resources. Materials in this section are trusted resources that are useful across the spectrum of the cotton growing community. All of the directory resources link to an outside website.

In addition to the four primary widgets, there is a Cultivated Twitter feed which follows cotton-related media, research and extension experts. The tweets can be filtered by region and provide real time information without the need for a Twitter account.

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Cotton Incorporated is asking for feedback from users of the site, hoping to build on what people find useful while adding other features based on comments received. Comments can be shared via the “Contact Us” link on the site.

 

Source – The Cotton Board

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