Across the United States and the High Plains, the amount of farm equipment (balers, combines, cotton pickers and strippers and forage harvesters) on farms is shrinking. Since the 1997 Census of ...

High Plains Journal’s Cotton U, which was also sponsored by IDEAg, was held Dec. 2 in conjunction with the Amarillo Farm & Ranch Show in Amarillo, Texas. The half-day event consisted of two ...

Eight Texas High Plains cotton farms, ranging in size from 189 acres to 5,570 acres, were simulated under six alternative farm program provisions to determine the likely structural impacts of these ...

AMARILLO – Just in time for cotton producers making variety selections for the coming year, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service agronomists in the High Plains and Rolling Plains have released ...

High Plains growers, who produce more than 80 percent of Texas's wine grapes, say they are increasingly plagued by the potent new formulations of herbicides cotton-growers deploy in their battle ...

Rajan Ghimire ¹, Jay B. Norton ¹, Urszula Norton ², John P. Ritten ³, Peter D. Stahl ¹, James M. Krall ², Long-term farming systems research in the central High Plains, Renewable Agriculture and Food ...

The 'FARM' Act takes costs, average price, average yield, revenue and projected returns into consideration. (Plains Cotton Growers) (Plains Cotton Growers) Producers who derive less than 75 percent of ...

As society grows more concerned with what is on a label, organic cotton has steadily grown in popularity. Conventional cotton has long been a staple of Texas agriculture, producing roughly 25 perce… ...

After three fairly wet years, a drought has descended on the southern Great Plains, one of the nation’s most fertile farming areas, affecting everything from cotton to cattle to farming ...

Plains Cotton Growers CEO Kody Bessent is calling on congress to enact new legislation he says would keep farmers in business and set them up to, at least, start their next crop.

He has been the face of cotton on the South Plains and in Washington, D.C. since he joined Plains Cotton Growers in 1997. In retirement, Verett says he plans to help his son more on the family farm.