Twelve cotton producers from Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri will travel west to observe cotton and other agricultural operations in California’s San Joaquin Valley during the week of July 17th.
It’s part of the National Cotton Council’s 2017 Producer Information Exchange (P.I.E) Program.
The P.I.E. program is now 29 years old and sponsored by Bayer through a grant to The Cotton Foundation.
The program has exposed more than 1,100 cotton producers to innovative production ideas in cotton belt regions different from their own.
The program’s goal is to help cotton producers boost the efficiency on their operations through several ways, including getting new perspectives on fundamental practices like land prep, planting, fertilization, pest control, irrigation, and harvesting.
Producers also get a look at innovative ways others are using current technology.
This year’s other P.I.E. tours will have southwestern cotton producers touring operations in Georgia in early August.
Southeast and Far West cotton producers will tour Texas cotton regions in mid-August.
