Eric Best, Deltapine cotton product manager and Dave Albers, Deltapine cotton product development manager, announce the class of 2024 Deltapine cotton varieties at NPE Summit in San Antonio, Texas. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.)

Deltapine announces two new cotton varieties at NPE Summit 

Ripe milo or grain sorghum. (Courtesy photo.)

Sorghum powerful tool in a rotation 

Texas A&M AgriLife Research wheat variety plots near Bushland will provide good yield data. (Texas A&M AgriLife Communications courtesy photo by Kay Ledbetter.)

Wheat’s best kept secret 

Sunflower By Barbara Austin, St. John, Kansas.

Sunflower markets

Wheat. (Photo by Kay Ledbetter, Texas A&M AgriLife.)

Ag groups concerned at Mexican rail closures 

The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. (Map courtesy of NDMC.)

Southwestern Plains received beneficial moisture

Jonathan Evans poses in front of the cotton picker. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.)

HPJ writers reminisce, reflect on favorite stories

Wheat story turns from less than ideal, to one of my favorites