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COTTON FARMING IS THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE GINNING INDUSTRY.
Academic Investment Helps Develop Future Leaders
Assisting students interested in pursuing agriculture is critical to the long-term viability of the industry. They are enthusiastic about learning new skills and eager to share their vision about what needs to be accomplished in the future. Providing these young adults an opportunity to grow and succeed is one of the first steps in developing future leaders in agriculture.
For this reason, Cotton Farming is pleased to continue its support of the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association scholarship program that benefi ts Texas Tech University students. Each year, the magazine, which has co-sponsored the TCGA Trade Show for about 25 years, contributes a portion of revenue from the sale of ads in the TCGA printed program and ticket sales for the Exhibitor’s Luncheon. In 2019, Cotton Farming raised $4,150 to help bolster the scholarship fund.
“As any parent who has a kid in college knows, it is a significant financial burden,” says Tony Williams, TCGA executive vice president. “The Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association scholarship program, in partnership with Cotton Farming magazine, helps ease the financial burden and is a wise investment in our future leaders.”
Jane Piercy, Texas Tech’s director of development and external relations, says agriculture students appreciate any kind of help given to them while pursuing their degrees.
“Without assistance from the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association, the dream of a degree in higher education can be unrealistic for many of our students,” she says. “We are grateful that the association sees the value of scholarships for our students.”
Here are the recipients of the 2020 TCGA scholarships: ¢ John Barnwell, Lubbock, sophomore, economics. ¢ Grace Blackwell, Checotah, Oklahoma, senior, economics. ¢ Brittney Couch, Little Elm, Texas, senior, agribusiness. ¢ Monica Haugen, Colton, Washington, senior, agricultural communications. ¢ Bailey Hufnagle, Canyon, Texas, senior, agricultural and applied economics. ¢ Madison Rogers, Lubbock, junior, agribusiness. ¢ Carlie Shae Witte, Clint, Texas, senior, plant and soil science.
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Trevor Johnson, Crowell, Texas, is a senior agricultural and applied economics major and the recipient of the Rocky King Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship was established in 2000 by the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association as part of the TCGA Scholarship Endowment.
Scholarships are awarded to students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources who have an interest in and/or a background in cotton. At least one TCGA scholarship is awarded annually in memory of Rocky King, a long-term member of the association.
For more information about the Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association scholarship program for Texas Tech students, contact the association’s o ice in Round Rock, Texas, at 512-476-8388 or visit www.tcga.org.
Ginners School Schedules Updated
Due to COVID-19, the restrictions placed on the U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities as well as state restrictions that include social distancing, the Western Ginners School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, has been postponed. The western school’s new dates are July 28-30.
The Stoneville Ginners School will be held as scheduled June 2-4. Students who were enrolled at the Southwestern Ginners School, which was canceled, may want to consider these two schools as options.
Ginners School cooperators include the USDA Agricultural Research Service, the National Cotton Ginners’ Association and its member associations, the National Cotton Council, Cotton Incorporated, gin machinery/equipment manufacturers and suppliers, and select land-grant universities.
All courses are in English only.
Registration and classes begin at 8 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Lunch is served each day at the school and is included in your registration.
Each level of Ginners School course work is built on the previous level of instruction, with Level 1 as the foundation. Therefore, the school’s coordinators strongly recommend that beginning students, regardless of gin experience, start with Level 1.
View registration and school details at https://bit.ly/3aSv JMM.
Cotton’s Calendar
Due to the fluid situation involving COVID-19, some listed events may be canceled or postponed. Please verify the status with the individual organizations.
¢ May 6-8: ACSA Convention, Ritz Carlton, Washington, D.C. ¢ May 20: PCCA Board of Directors Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ¢ May 21: Calcot Board of Directors Meeting, San Antonio, Texas ¢ June 16-18: Cotton Incorporated Board Meeting, Omni Mandalay Bay, Dallas, Texas ¢ June 17: Staplcotn Board of Directors Meeting, Greenwood, Mississippi ¢ June 17: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas
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MINIMIZE SEED BRIDGING • SAFER • FASTER • STRONGER
¢ June 18: Calcot Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona ¢ July 9-12: Cottonseed & Feed Association 2020 Annual Meeting, Intercontinental Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri ¢ July 16: Calcot Board of Directors Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona ¢ July 20-23: Southern Southeastern Mid-Year Board Meeting, Sheraton Bay Point, Panama City Beach, Florida ¢ Aug. 4-6: Cotton Board & Cotton Incorporated Joint Board Meeting, The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona ¢ Aug. 19: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas ¢ Aug. 26-28: NCC Mid-Year Board Meeting, Omni Louisville Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky ¢ Sept. 16: PCCA Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ¢ Sept. 16: Staplcotn Board of Directors Meeting, Greenwood, Mississippi ¢ Sept. 28: Calcot Board of Directors/Auditors’ Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona ¢ Sept. 29: Calcot Board of Directors Meeting/93rd Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona ¢ Oct. 21: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas ¢ Nov. 18: PCCA Board of Directors Meeting, Lubbock, Texas ¢ Dec. 7-9: Mississippi State University Row Crop Short Course, Starkville, Mississippi ¢ Dec. 8-10: Cotton Board & Cotton Incorporated Joint Board Meeting, Don Cesar, St. Pete Beach, Florida ¢ Dec. 16: PCCA Board, Delegate Body & Marketing Pool Committee Meetings, Lubbock, Texas
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Legend Of The DonnyBrook BlackFoot Award Fiascos
After 32 years of crop consulting, you would think this business would run like a well-oiled machine. To the contrary, running a company with predominantly 18- to 25-year-old employees is much like running a house full of teenagers. Always expect the unexpected! The DonnyBrook!
I’m sure many people have no idea what a DonnyBrook is or where it originated. I was first introduced to the term by Jeff Jones, a good friend from Conway, Arkansas. Anytime we got ourselves in a precarious situation, Jeff always referred to it as a DonnyBrook.
Unbeknownst to me, DonnyBrook originated in Dublin, Ireland, hundreds of years ago and referred to an annual disorderly event. And anyone who has had young people hired for a summer or involved in farming understands how disorderly an event every summer can be.
This legend would not be complete without mentioning a “disease” that occurs to turkey hunters that Rhett Butler named the “BlackFoot” turkey disease. It’s usually associated with a DonnyBrook of some sort — like a cell phone ringing and scaring an old tom turkey that has been as formidable an opponent as Spartacus himself. This “head” disease is a subconscious affliction that deems it impossible to kill the wild turkey. Rhett says the only way to shake it is to eat collard greens.
In 2006, I started the DonnyBrook BlackFoot Sharp Shooter Association as a joke aimed at Nick Williams for missing so many turkeys on one Florida hunting trip. I bought a plaque and put his name on the first brass plate. Every year since, whoever gets the award has to display the plaque in their office for the whole world to see until someone else wins it.
We’ve also experienced DonnyBrooks at our home on numerous occasions. In a house full of four boys and myself, my poor wife, Crystal, never had a chance. There was always a DonnyBrook to deal with! I once shot a balloon out of the 20-foot ceiling in our living room with a BB gun. Hit it first shot! Unfortunately, when we sold the house, the buyer noticed the BB was still in the ceiling.
Much like our home life, my business has always been full of surprises. I met a farmer once whose place was named Fiasco Farms. In hindsight, Fiasco Consulting would have been a great name for my company. For more than three decades, DonnyBrooks have been associated with our day-to-day consulting business. We’ve had snakes in hip boots, snakes in sweep nets and snakes in the cotton. We’ve had trucks stuck in the mud, stuck in ditches and stuck in fields. The majority of the time, I didn’t have a clue how the trucks ever ended up in any of these places.
There have been several wrecks with both trucks and motorcycles. The accidents were mostly harmless although many have made great stories. In three of the wrecks, there was no driver. Only we could do this! DonnyBrooks just seem to follow us around. We have sunk a truck. We have flown over the cab of the truck on dirt bikes and flipped out of trucks on four wheelers. We have flown over the handlebars on motorcycles and landed flat on our backs off of ATVs.
We’ve broken legs, shoulders, ribs, pelvises and hips. We’ve had fist fights that led to broken windshields and dented hoods. We’ve busted out back glasses and thrown motorcycles out of trucks. Here at Hydricks Crop Consulting, we call all these incidents DonnyBrooks that have helped shape my business into what it is today.
As many of you know, operating a company or a farming operation is a lot of hard work. You learn from each DonnyBrook, and it makes you better. I once was told by a client, Kenny Qualls, as he was looking at damaged fruit all over the ground, “I’m not in this for revenge.”
But through the adversity brought on by DonnyBrooks always comes wisdom. A farmer named Roe Jackson said about the only thing he ever learned from growing cotton was to “never give up, never give up.” We made more than 1,400 pounds per acre this past year on a cotton field on his grandson’s and great grandsons’ farm that only had 11,000 plants per acre. No matter how bad it gets or how many DonnyBrooks you’re dealt, remember Roe’s words: Just never give up. Thank you, Roe, and RIP!
So many friends, such as Rhett Butler and Nick Williams, helped shape this legend. To my wife, Crystal, our four boys — Tyler, Kadin, Tucker and Koby, who continue to work for pops — and to the countless scouts who endured 12- to 16-hour days, I dearly appreciate your efforts. I couldn’t do it without y’all.
— David Hydrick
Jonesboro, Arkansas hydrickscrop@gmail.com
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