Cotton Incorporated meeting held at West Tennessee AgResearch Center
JACKSON, Tenn. — A very important meeting regarding agriculture was held Friday morning.
This is an annual meeting with the members of the Tennessee board of the national Cotton Incorporated organization. It was held at the West Tennessee AgResearch Center in Jackson.
We were bale to speak with Eugene Pugh, a state delegate for the Cotton Incorporated board, about what they are doing.
“The professors and the doctors are coming to us with their projects and come to us with a budget presentation,” Pugh said. “They’ll present their studies and what they’re looking to do. We’ll go through their budget and fund their projects.”
This is a collaborative effort in order to learn more through testing.
“They’re doing real-time studies. We’re coming to them with what we’re seeing in the fields and they’re going to replicate it with the trials here and give us the findings,” said Pugh.
Along with deciding the funding, the information that is being passed around is incredibly helpful back at the farms.
“This information is extremely valuable,” Pugh added. “This is top tier information. They’re finding stuff here on the stations that they’re working with that we may not even be aware of or seeing in the fields. They’re just years ahead of us with the data.”
The funds come from a pool made possible to the contributions of statewide farms.
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