As a new crop season nears, cotton growers can rely on the Advancing Cotton Education program for resources to help enhance their crop production decisions.
Following a better than anticipated 2013 crop, some softening in grain prices and more concrete answers about the future thanks to a new farm bill, optimism in the cotton market seems a bit brighter than a year ago. But there are some trends that bear watching.
Like most fifth graders, 11-year-old Britton Pointer gets excited about his after-school activities on the farm. After all, he had his own 10-acre circle of cotton to manage last season.