Talkin’ Cotton Podcast

The Talkin’ Cotton Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Amazon Music. The links below will take you to the episodes posted on Buzzsprout as well.

Season 3

Episode 1 – Georgia Cotton Commission Annual Meeting: Speakers, Topics, and What Growers Need to Know

Episode 2 – Spring County Meeting Updates Preview

Episode 3 – From Trials to Fields: Smarter Variety Selection for 2026

Episode 4 – Irrigation, Planting, and Precision Ag Wins for 2026 Cotton

Episode 5 – Science over Noise: Saving Tools, Fields, and Future Cotton

Episode 6 – Practical Rules for Pesticides, ESA Labels, and Cover Crop Payoffs

Episode 7 – Jealous of Jassids and Afraid of Nematodes – Bob Kemerait’s 2026 Update

Episode 8 – Georgia Cotton Insect Updates for 2026 and What To Do First

Episode 9 – How to Stay Ready When the Rain Won’t Show Up

Episode 10 – Georgia Cotton Drought Playbook

Episode 11 – You can fix a stand if you fix downforce

Episode 12 – Georgia Cotton Update on Rainfall, Irrigation, and Stand Quality

Season 2

Episode 1 – Georgia Cotton Commission Annual Meeting – January 29, 2025

Episode 2 – Intro to Specialist Updates for 2025

Episode 3 – Cotton Agronomy Update for 2025 – Camp Hand

Episode 4- Cotton Entomology Update for 2025 – Phillip Roberts

Episode 5 – Cotton nematode and disease update for 2025 – Bob Kemerait

Episode 6 – Sustainability update for 2025 – Taylor Singleton

Episode 7 – Irrigation and Precision Ag Update for 2025 – Wes Porter

Episode 8 – Cotton Weed Management Update for 2025 – Stanley Culpepper

Episode 9 – Early Season Considerations for 2025

Episode 10 – Cotton Planting Time: thoughts from the UGA Cotton Team

Episode 11 – Planting tweaks, irrigation, and early season insects

Episode 12 – Late planting and early squaring considerations

Episode 13 – Late plantings and first blooms – consideration for the Georgia Crop

Episode 14 – Considerations for insect, foliar disease, and irrigation management in July 2025

Episode 15 – Georgia Cotton Commission Mid-Year Meeting

Episode 16 – Drop Cloths and PGRs – July in the Cotton Field

Episode 17 – Breaking the System: Why Your Pest Management Decisions Matter

Episode 18 – Beyond the Shed: What Your Cotton Plants Are Really Telling You

Episode 19 – Proposed Dicamba Regulations: What Georgia Cotton Growers Need to Know

Episode 20 – Managing Late-Season Cotton Challenges

Episode 21 – When Fields Turn Yellow: The Critical Timing of Cotton Harvest

Season 1

Episode 1 – Introduction to the Talkin’ Cotton Podcast

Episode 2 – Preplant Considerations

Episode 3 – Early Season Considerations

Episode 4 – Questions on Planting in Drier Conditions and Early Season Insect Pressure

Episode 5 – Early season insect and weed management considerations, planter mishaps, and suggestions with wetter conditions

Episode 6 – Replant discussion, considerations for June planted cotton, and Farm Bill update

Episode 7 – Cotton Fertility and Plant Bug Management

Episode 8 – Current Situation with Extreme Heat and Dry Weather, and Pesticide Stewardship Reminders

Episode 9 – Georgia Cotton Commission Mid-Year Meeting

Episode 10 – PGR use in cotton, keeping up with irrigation, and the insect situation

Episode 11 – CLRDV-induced bronze wilt discussion, and late July pest and crop management considerations

Episode 12 – Finale of the Farewell Tour – Reminiscing on 30 years with Dr. Glen Harris

Episode 13 – Hurricane Debby, Cotton IPM, and disease management

Episode 14 – East Georgia Update, Irrigation Termination, Late Season Plant Bugs, and Crop Status

Episode 15 – End of season disease, nematode, and insect considerations, irrigation termination, and defoliation/harvest prep discussion

Episode 16 – Updates on USDA Outlook and Farm Bill, ESA Herbicide Strategy, Finishing the 2024 Crop, and Cover Crops

Episode 17 – Joint Podcast – All about the Pod and Talkin’ Cotton – Outlook Following Hurricane Helene

Episode 18 –Continued discussion of impacts of Hurricane Helene on Georgia Cotton, work of the Georgia Cotton Commission, and considerations for defoliation and harvest

Episode 19 – Crop Status, Defoliation Issues, Nematode Sampling, and Module Handling

Episode 20 –Federal Economic and Disaster Assistance

Episode 21 – 2024 Wrap Up and looking toward 2025 Meeting Season