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The Cotton Companion — 206 episodes
How Soon Could BACA Become Law?
O.A. Cleveland, Cotton Marketing Expert, Bids Farewell
Uncle Sam Takes Aim at Building Cotton Demand
A Closer Look at the Great American Cotton Plan
How to Handle the Tarnished Plant Bug in 2026
Cotton’s Weather Market Has the Bulls on Parade
How the Strait of Hormuz Impacts Your Operating Margins
What We Know About the DOJ’s Fertilizer Investigation
North Carolina Producer David Dunlow Tabbed for 2026 Cotton Achievement Award
Talking BACA with Congressman Greg Murphy
9 Million Acres? A Look at the NCC’s Numbers for 2026
A Closer Look at the New Dicamba Label
The Buying American Cotton Act Advances on Capitol Hill
Everything You Need to Know About the Cotton Jassid for 2026
The Cotton Market Has 99 Problems but Tariffs Aren’t One
What USDA’s $12 Billion Relief Package Means for Cotton
How Cotton Incorporated is Taking the Fight to Polyester on the Retail Shelf
Will Cotton Break Out of It’s Narrow Trading Window in 2026?
Celebrating Our 200th Episode...and Jay Mahaffey, Too!
Plant Not Plastic: Cotton Takes On Microplastics and Polyester
Cotton Promotion Program Evolving for a Changed World
Talking Mid-South Cotton, Early Harvest, and Pests Old and New
49 Meetings, 16 States, 6 Weeks
Dr. Bill's Harvest Preparation Checklist
Dissecting the Newly Proposed Dicamba Label and Next Actions
Reviewing Cotton's Current Research Programs and Priorities
Examining the Big Beautiful Benefits for Cotton
What's New in Cotton's Ag Tech Pipeline?
Have Environmentalists Damaged Cotton Demand?
West Texas Focus With an Eye on DC
Meet CCI's Liz Hershfield
How Are Tariffs Impacting Cotton Movement and Trade?
Ignore the Noise Around Tariffs, Focus Instead on Fundamentals
Button Up Farm Finances As Planting Nears
Celebrating Cotton Achievement Award Recipient Ted Schneider
Observations from the Mid-South Farm & Gin Show
Cotton's Agenda and New Leadership for 2025
Oh Deer! Tracking Cotton's Latest Big Pest.
Cotton's 2025 Outlook for the U.S., the World...and California
Cotton's New Year: What's Happened, What's New and What's Next for 2025?
How Did Ag Retailers Stack Up in 2024?
Cotton Companion: Discussing Cotton's Fortunes for 2025
Cotton Companion: Beltwide Cotton Conferences Ready to Kick Off 2025
Time to Focus on Cover Crops
Weathering Multiple Storms
When Will We See a New Farm Bill?
Setting the Record Straight on Cotton Promotion
Making Sense of Cotton's Volatile Year
West Texas Optimism
Slumping Prices and the Million Acre Surprise
Weed Control's Latest Issues, Challenges and Opportunities
How Banned Cotton Still Muddies Cotton's Supply Chain Transparency
ACSA's 100 Years Serving U.S. Cotton
Looking at Precision Ag Adoption in Cotton
Riding Cotton's Price Roller Coaster - Again
Findings from Cotton's Antique Alley
Spotlight on the Cotton Foundation
Adjusting to New EPA Adjustments
Honoring 2023 Cotton Achievement Award Recipient Bart Davis
Facing Cotton's New and Continuing Challenges
Meet the 2023 Cotton Marketer of the Year
New Ag Tech in the Palm of Your Hand
Acreage Projections, Award Winners, and Hot Cotton Headlines
Wrapping Up 2023; Looking Ahead to 2024
Never Slowing Down
Sliding Into 2024?
Finding New Life and New Uses for Old Cotton
Examining Soil Health’s Value to Cotton
How Unprecedented Politics Could Impact a New Farm Bill
Positive First Impressions
Heat, Hurricanes and Four-Legged Pests
August Puts the Heat on Cotton
What’s In the Climate Smart Cotton Program for You?
Looking at Cotton From Down Under
Tracking This Season’s Weed Challenges
Bulls, Bears and Texas Cotton
Navigating Cotton’s Crazy Market
2023 Planting: A Grower’s Perspective
New Technology and Cotton Production
Unpacking the Current Cotton Market
Humble Advice for U.S. Cotton
Building Trust in the Protocol Process
Lone Star Leadership for the NCC
Is Cotton a Convenient Scapegoat for Supply Chain Woes?
2023 Cotton Outlook: ”Live” from the Beltwide Cotton Conferences
Starting 2023 with an Award and a Cotton Acreage Projection
Wrapping Up 2022: New Varieties and a 2023 Market Preview
Deciphering Regulatory Challenges Impacting Cotton
Getting a Mid-South Report
Cotton’s Tricks and Treats for 2022
What’s Bugging Cotton?
During a Drought, Farming Simple is Simply Better
Milestones, Markets...and Some Maybes for 2023
What Does the Inflation Reduction Act Mean for Cotton?
How Soil Health Programs Benefit Cotton Growers
What’s Next After Cotton’s Price Adjustment
How Cotton Incorporated Keeps Your Cotton in High Demand
Fighting the Weed Battles
Making Sense of Today’s Volatile Market
Celebrating 100 Years of Stoneville
Live from the Turnrow
Talking Cotton Technologies and Other Cool Stuff
Farm Bill Time Already?
Tracking Wins and Watchouts
Dancing Cotton’s One Step, Two Step Tango
What’s New at NCC? And What’s Up with Glyphosate?
Selling Sustainability to Cotton’s Downstream Audiences
Cotton Is NOT the Enemy
What’s Up for Cotton in 2022?
Sifting Through the Supply Chain Rumors
Giving Thanks for Cotton
Moving Cotton in a Dollar Cotton World
Talking Honors and Market Outlook
The Pros - and Cons - of Dollar Cotton
Manage Risks, Protect Profits
Don‘t Get Fired Up
Feeding Demand for U.S. Cotton
The New Product Episode
Reflecting on 100 Episodes and Prospects for Dollar Cotton
Taking a Broad Look at Cotton Research
Weeds, More Weeds...and Metabolic Resistance?
Weather Questions? Let's Ask Mike.
Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
Watching Markets as Planters Roll
From Cotton Scrubs to Cotton Planting
Here to There: Today's Challenges in Moving Cotton
How Will Changes in Washington Impact Cotton?
Good Guys Without White Hats
Deep Freeze and West Texas Cotton
We've Got an (Ag) App for That
Early Season Marketing 101: Time to Pay Attention
Prognostications and Presentations
Bidding Goodbye to 2020
A Panel's Perspective on Dicamba and 2021 Weed Control
Giving Thanks for the Season - and a Few Good Stories
What's Next for Cotton Post-Election?
Documenting the Beauty of Cotton
Sorting Through the Cotton Market Madness
Keeping U.S. Cotton Contamination-Free
Talking Weather, Hurricanes and Drunk Donkeys
The Market's on a Run; Catch It While You Can
No Pandemic Slowdown for the Business of Cotton
Taking the Long and Winding Road
Spanning the Cotton Belt for Hot News Items; Trying to Make Sense of the Market
Dicamba Saga Continues; Traits Paying Off in Nematode Battles
Dissecting Cotton's Dicamba Dilemma
More COVID-19 Relief...and Making Early Planting Pay Off
#2020Planting Is On!
More COVID-19 Relief for Cotton Growers - And a Looney Tunes Prophecy?
Uncle Sam CARES for Cotton?
Cotton and COVID-19
Coronavirus and 2020 Cotton Pricing
Episode 66 – Acreage Projections and MFP Rumblings
Episode 65 – All We Need is Just a Little Patience
Episode 64 – Third Tranche Waiting Game
Episode 63 – Cotton Acreage and the Young Bull Market
Episode 62 – Trade Deal Season
Episode 61 – Closing Out 2019 Harvest
Episode 60 – MFP and A Rare Sighting of Market Bulls
Episode 59 – Harvest Season Heads for the Home Stretch
Episode 58 – Harvest Helpin’
Episode 57 – The Louisiana Fashion Episode
Episode 56 – Texas Two Step
Episode 55 – Dorian, Defoliation and Cover Crop Timing
Episode 54 – Putting Lipstick on the Cotton Price Pig
Episode 53 – U.S. Cotton’s Global Competition
Episode 52 – Market Facilitation Payments!
Episode 51 – Cottonseed Advancements; First Bale Here Already
Episode 50 – Real. Comfortable. Wrangler (and U.S. Cotton).
Episode 49 – Disaster Relief and the Personal Side of the Trade War
Episode 48 – Trade Wars and the Market Facilitation Program
Episode 47 – #Plant19 Progress and Forces Impacting Prices
Episode 46 – Cleveland On the Cotton Market; Cotton Sustainability in 2019
Episode 45 – Three Crop Protection Tips; Nicosia on 2019 Pricing and Fundamentals
Episode 44 – Nicosia On Rising Competition from Brazil
Episode 43 – Nicosia Takes Stock of the Market
Episode 42 – 2019 State of Cotton
Episode 41 – How the Trade War Could Impact Prices for Years to Come
Episode 40 – Six Tips to Consider Before #Plant19
Episode 39 – Government Shutdown on the Farm; 2019 Acreage Projection
Episode 38 – China’s Soybean Pump Fake
Episode 37 – How to Shelter Yourself from the Trade Wars
Episode 36 – Movement on the Farm Bill!
Episode 35 – USDA Tamps Down U.S. Cotton Production Estimates
Episode 34 – Forces Shaping the Cotton Market at Harvest Time
Episode 33 – Cotton and the Chinese Trade Dispute
Episode 32 – Conaway and Perdue Weigh In On the Farm Bill
Episode 31 – Dicamba Developments and Hurricanes vs USDA
Episode 30 – Market Surprises and Dicamba Findings
Episode 29 – Cotton Calls on Trump for Help; States Regulate Dicamba
Episode 28 – Dicamba Updates and USDA Acreage Report
Episode 27 – Dicamba in the Mid-South and Beyond
Episode 26 – Are Prices Surging Too Quickly?
Episode 25 – Industry Reacts to EPA’s XtendiMax Ruling
Episode 24 – Dicamba Registration Finally Comes Through
Episode 23 – What does Bayer-Monsanto Mean for U.S. Cotton?
Episode 22 – How Should You Respond to this Market Movement?
Episode 21 – The Cotton Market Shows Signs of Life!
Episode 20 – USDA Acreage Report and PGR BMPs
Episode 19 – Ginning Cost Sharing is Ginning Cost Caring
Episode 18 – Another Potential Merger Pops Up
Episode 17 – The #Plant16 Episode
Episode 16 – Cotton’s Politics
Episode 15 – On Raging Against the Machine
Episode 14 – Joe Curses the Volcano
Episode 13 – In Conaway’s Own Words