Source: Brad Robb, FARM PROGRESS, 8/22/19


Although Cotton Incorporated’s Dr. Ed Barnes may have felt like a fish out of water addressing peanut farmers at this year’s Southern Peanut Growers Conference, he knows that in addition to growing peanuts, many of them grow cotton for rotation. Barnes talked about robotics research Cotton Incorporated is funding at the University of Georgia as part of a larger belt-wide initiative he designed to address the vexing farm labor shortage problem and the increasing herbicide-resistant weed issue.

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