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Cotton, Crops

Wide open spaces: Setting cotton up for success in drought

The popular song "Wide Open Spaces" by The Chicks—formerly The Dixie Chicks—may be about a young girl finding her way in the world without constraint, but an idea with similar foundation is piquing the interest of cotton growers as they strive to provide their cotton... Read More

Cotton, Cotton, Cotton U, Crops

Managing the pillars of cotton production in the High Plains

Cotton, Crops, Lacey Vilhauer

Managing cotton within the window of a short-season environment



As rains stall harvest throughout northeastern counties, record cotton acreage made vulnerable

Texas High Plains cotton growers begin harvest preparations

Cotton progressing ahead of average

Sorghum progressing ahead of average

Corn development ahead of last year

Hot, dry conditions widespread

Wheat and oats harvest nearly complete

Less water, same Texas cotton

  • By American Society of Agronomy Soil Science Society of America and Crop Science Society of America