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What Goes on Behind the Scenes of Growing Cotton

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What Goes on Behind the Scenes of Growing Cotton

Sep 27, 2018

On today’s show, Scott Warr is joined by Trey Cutts, the High Cotton Crop Manager, Christy Hicks, the Sales Agronomist, for YARA, and Garrett Dixon, a young cotton farmer. Cotton farms are an important part of our agriculture and today’s guests provide interesting insight into what it’s like tending to the cotton crop. Find out more about Yara’s High Cotton Solution as well in the links below!

Key Takeaways:

[1:00] Why does Garrett refer to himself as a ‘young farmer’?

[2:55] Why is cotton an important crop to Yara?

[4:00] How has the cotton crop been doing so far this year?

[5:05] Garrett explains what his family’s farm land looked like before he decided to take it over and become a farmer.

[7:40] How does Yara’s High Cotton Solution help make cotton more profitable for growers?

[8:40] What is Garrett’s biggest lesson so far about farming?

[10:20] Christy shares some of the biggest wins she sees cotton growers having.

[11:05] What is the hardest nutrient to manage?

[12:55] Trey shares insight into what the biggest opportunity steps are for cotton.

[16:10] How did Christy get into this career?

[16:40] How did Garrett get into farming?

Mentioned in This Episode:

Yara.com

Yara.us/crop-nutrition/cotton

Trey on LinkedIn