The National Cotton Council and its cooperating partners ring in the new year at the 2024 Beltwide Cotton Conferences January 3-5 in Fort Worth, Texas. Click here for the 2024 Beltwide Cotton Conferences Virtual Newsroom
Cargill Expands Award-Winning Regenerative Agriculture Program to Europe
Cargill RegenConnectTM is building on two years of success in North America by expanding to France, Germany, Poland and Romania and adding nine new states across the U.S. Cargill is leveraging its unique position in the supply chain to pioneer its award-winning regenerative agriculture program in Europe, which will see farmers in Germany, Poland, Romania, and France financially compensated to …
2023 Beltwide Cotton Conferences Ring in New Year
The National Cotton Council and its cooperating partners ring in the new year at the 2023 Beltwide Cotton Conferences January 10 through 12 in New Orleans. Beltwide is three days of individual reports, panel discussions, hands on workshops and seminars designed to provide attendees with information they need to help producers make key cotton production/marketing-related decisions. A dynamic program, along …
ZimmCast 683 – Wrap-ups and Previews
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. This episode will be about a wrap-up and a couple of previews. 2022 got off to a fast start with our virtual newsroom production for the National Cotton Council and the Beltwide Cotton Conferences. You can find the interviews and photos on AgNewsWire.com which has a link to the custom page we created for …
2022 Beltwide Cotton Conferences
The National Cotton Council and its cooperating partners welcome all to the 2022 Beltwide Cotton Conferences January 4 through 6 (Tuesday through Thursday) at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, San Antonio, Texas. Three days of individual reports, panel discussions, hands on workshops and seminars are designed to provide attendees with information they need to help producers make key cotton production/marketing-related …
ZimmCast 664 – Beltwide & Biodiesel Conferences
Hello and welcome to the ZimmCast. In this week’s program we’ll hear interviews from the Beltwide Cotton Conferences and the National Biodiesel Conference and Expo starting with Dr. Gary Adams, National Cotton Council President and CEO, as Cindy talks with him about how the virtual Beltwide event went. Next up, I talk with Chad Stone, Renewable Energy Group VP and …
2021 Beltwide Cotton Conferences
With the continued concerns regarding the spread of COVID-19, the National Cotton Council has replaced the in-person 2021 Beltwide Cotton Conferences with a fully virtual meeting January 5 through 7. The virtual platform, utilizing existing on-line meeting technology, will include three days of live-streamed individual reports and panel discussions from the technical sessions along with poster presentations and seminars designed …
EPA Announces Dicamba Registration Decision
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler at a Georgia cotton farm on Tuesday announced that EPA is approving new five-year registrations for two dicamba products and extending the registration of an additional dicamba product. All three registrations include new control measures to ensure these products can be used effectively while protecting the environment, including non-target plants, animals, and other …
Secretary Perdue Visits Florida Panhandle
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue took a tour of crop damage from Hurricane Sally in Alabama and Florida on Monday. He visited the Jenkins Farm in Jay, Florida and heard from farmers in the panhandle of the state who suffered damage to cotton and peanut crops. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who represents the 1st district of Florida, joined Secretary …
Heliae, R.W. Griffin to Launch Strategic Alliance to Promote Georgia Soil Health
GILBERT, AZ (December 5, 2019) – Heliae® Agriculture is partnering with the R.W. Griffin family of companies to drive soil health in Georgia and North Florida. R.W. Griffin, one of the largest fertilizer retailers in Georgia, has become one of the company’s official distributors for the southeast region. Griffin Evans, Chemical and Seed Director for R.W. Griffin says, “We are …
New Dicamba-tolerant Stoneville Varieties from BASF
BASF has added three new dicamba-tolerant Stoneville® cottonseed varieties to its ever-expanding cotton portfolio. Each of these new varieties is tolerant to Liberty,® Engenia® and glyphosate herbicides and brings three-gene lepidopteran resistance, which decreases the likelihood that an application for worm control will be needed. The new varieties include: ST 4480B3XF A new early- to mid-maturity variety for growers in …
BASF FiberMax Event & TCGA Trade Show
BASF recently celebrated cotton growers who achieved four-bale or greater yields by welcoming them to the exclusive FiberMax® One Ton Club™ for their 2018 harvest results. Additionally, the FiberMax Maximizer Club™, now in its third year, recognized growers with dryland cotton fields yielding at least 1,000 pounds per acre with FiberMax varieties. The combined event was held during the 2019 …
2019 Mid-South Farm and Gin Show
The 67th Annual Mid-South Farm & Gin Show was held March 1 & 2, 2019 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. Sponsored by Southern Cotton Ginners Association and Foundation and Delta Farm Press, the show regularly attracts approximately 20,000 domestic and international decision-makers. This virtual ag newsroom, sponsored by FMC Agricultural Solutions, includes links to photos and audio content available …
2019 BASF APT Summit
The first virtual ag newsroom of 2019 features the inaugural BASF APT (Agronomic Performance Trials) Summit. This program takes place just prior to the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in New Orleans. The program includes sharing 2018 APT information and the announcement of new 2019 cotton varieties. This virtual ag newsroom includes links to digital media content available free of charge for …
BASF Celebrate Cotton 2018
The annual Celebrate Cotton Texas Tech football game provided the perfect opportunity for BASF to show off its branded BASF Seed Innovation Center Attendees were provided with tours that included both the Trait Development Building and the BASF Crop Analytics laboratory. After the tours media were able to meet with BASF leadership for one on one interviews. Then it was …