One of the participants in our media round table on sustainability was Berrye Worsham, President & CEO of Cotton Incorporated. Thanks to my good friend Brad Robb I was able to interview Barrye today. He says that one of the key challenges for marketing cotton today is that word, sustainability, especially from an environmental standpoint. For one thing he says …
Focus on Cotton Physiology
The Manager of Cotton Agronomy, Soils and Physiology for the National Cotton Council is Bill Robertson. He’s been with the Council for about a year. Coordinating the Beltwide is one of his duties. He says that he’s also working on reviving the Cotton Physiology Education Program and that one of the key components of that is the Cotton Physiology Today …
Cotton Picking Precision From John Deere
One of the exhibitors here at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences is John Deere for whom we manage their Precision Pays website. So it was a great opportunity to find out about what they’ve got new for cotton producers. I spoke with Jamie Flood, Product Marketing Manager, just as the trade show was kicking off. Of course John Deere has their …
Cottonseed Oil Comeback Tour
Ben Morgan is the Executive Vice President of the National Cottonseed Products Association. He’s here taking a break from the Cottonseed Oil Comeback Tour. The Tour is really a virtual tour they’re doing with a website that includes a blog! In my interview Ben talks about what the organization does and this project. Download my interview with Ben Morgan here: …
BASF Beltwide Booth
It seems like Headline has made headlines for BASF and that’s brought in a lot of growers to their booth here at the Beltwide trade show. This isn’t all of the crew here but most of them right before the show got started today. I did a couple interviews in their booth including the following one with Tom McKemie, BASF …
Cotton Consultant’s Headline Perspective
It’s always interesting getting a perspective from your audience. For BASF today that was a group of cotton consultants like Ray Young on the right. Ray’s from northeast Louisiana. Next to him is Boyd Kidwell, Quarry Integrated Communications. I talked to Ray after the BASF Cotton Consultants Conference and he said that the registration of Headline for cotton was news …
BASF Bolls Them Over With Headline
Scott Asher is a BASF Diversified Regional Manager. He spoke today at their Cotton Consultants Conference and provided some technical information about the product. Scott says that BASF has a variety of activities planned for growers here that ranges from this session to a nightly hospitality suite and trade show booth. He says that communication with consultants is important and …
A Headline Cotton Yield Advantage
One of the experts on the program at the BASF Cotton Consultants Conference is Amber Shirley, BASF Technical Marketing Manager. Amber says that having Headline, a foliar fungicide, available for the first time means that cotton growers now have the full range of plant protection products available to them that other commodity growers have. She says that using a fungicide …
Headline Making Cotton Headlines
Kicking off the BASF Cotton Consultants Conference is Dr. Gary Fellows, BASF Technical Market Manager. Dr. Fellows started things off by announcing that Headline fungicide is now registered for cotton. He says that 4 years worth of field trials are showing great results. Many of the cotton consultants here were hearing the news for the first time. The conference provided …
MO Governor Supports Agriculture
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt addressed a big crowd in St. Louis today at his annual ag conference. I think attendance is up this year and people got here even with a major interstate in the area closed for construction. This is a real who’s who in Missouri agriculture. The conference actually takes place over two days with lots of speakers …