From Dirt To Shirt 

By Larry Stalcup

From Tobacco Road to Taiwan, David Burns has his eye on cotton from dirt to shirt. The Laurel Hill, NC, cotton, soybean and wheat producer is among the...

Corn Can Boost Your Cotton 

By Larry Stalcup

From near virgin cotton country in northwest Texas to century-old farms in the Deep South, rotating cotton with corn continues to yield more pounds per...

Minimizing Gin Losses 

By Doreen Muzzi

A device similar to circular saw blades mounted on a common shaft could put thousands of lost dollars back into the pockets of cotton growers. The invention,...

Waiting To Jump On A Strong Cotton Market 

By Larry Stalcup

China and India. Both grow more cotton than U.S. growers. And there is huge production in Pakistan, South American countries and elsewhere. No wonder...

Future of Ag Biotechnology 

By Kent Thiesse, Vice President, MinnStar Bank

Within the past year or so, USDA released a report about the future of biotechnology in agriculture that is quite interesting. This report, “Opportunities and Challenges in Agricultural Biotechnology: The Decade Ahead"...

Is Cotton The Fabric Or Fuel Of Our Lives? 

By Larry Stalcup

A nation thirsty for biofuels has everything from switchgrass to mesquite trees mentioned as a potential feedstock for ethanol or biodiesel production....

Tried And True Cotton Marketing 

By Larry Stalcup

Sell your cotton and buy calls. That's a strategy that has been successful time and time again, says Joe O'Neill, New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) senior vice president of marketing...

One-Man Harvesting 

By Larry Stalcup

In a year when corn acres are up and cotton acres are down by 20%, new combines can be slim pickins'. But cotton pickers, well, there might be some good bargains out there...

When To Buy Cotton Put Options? 

By Larry Stalcup

Cotton growers haven't been rushing to use futures or options because they already have a floor provided by the government program. But with the potential...

Revolutionary Harvesting 

By Larry Stalcup

About 50 years ago the U.S. was in a race with Russia to get the first satellite in space. Russia's famous Sputnik prevailed by a few weeks. Now, the...