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Program will include a comparison of 2020 and 2021 contamination.
Plastic contamination affecs every segment of the cotton industry.
To help educate cotton producers, ginners and others involved in the cotton industry on this topic, the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will offer the free follow-up Plastics in Cotton Seminar II webinar on May 5.
“Those who participated in our Plastics in Cotton webinar last spring are invited to participate in this follow-up program, but participation in last year’s webinar is not a requirement,” said Jason Ott, AgriLife Extension agriculture and natural resources agent, Nueces County.
The webinar, which will be from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the Zoom platform, will include professional presentations as well as a panel discussion. Topics to be discussed by the panel include best practices and resources for cotton producers and ginners, cost and long-term marketing implications and more information regarding plastics in cotton
Rio Grande Valley cotton. Growers are preparing to plant the 2021 crop. Growers replant corn after a devastating February freeze, while dryland cotton farmers wait on a rain.
South Texas cotton producers are taking a wait and see attitude as they watch temperatures and soil moisture and finish planting or replanting grain crops.
The mid-February freeze damaged some early-planted crops from the Coastal Bend into the Rio Grande Valley, according to Extension specialists Danielle Sekula, and Josh McGinty and South Texas Cotton, Grain Association Executive Director Jeff Nunley and Webb Wallace, executive director, Cotton and Grain Producers of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.