NCC eXtension to be launched at 2008 Beltwide Cotton
18 Oct '07
3 min read
The National Cotton Council announced a multi-pronged educational effort aimed at improving U.S. cotton producers' sustainability, profitability and -- competitiveness.
These tools, all of which will improve the stream of useful information to producers, include:
• Cotton eXtension Community of Practice, a web-based cotton information/data delivery platform to be launched at the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences. • A new Beltwide Cotton Conferences' Cotton Consultant Conference • Restoration of the NCC's Cotton Physiology Today newsletter.
Bill Robertson, who serves as the NCC's manager, Agronomy, Soils and Physiology and coordinator of the Beltwide Cotton Production Conference programming, said, “Our nation's cotton producers should benefit from all of these educational activities."
"While each one alone will uniquely ensure the delivery of valuable information, the synergy among these efforts should prove to be a force that can give our industry a noticeable advantage in the global marketplace.”
The Cotton eXtension is an interactive learning environment delivering the best and most complete source of unbiased research based knowledge from land-grant universities across the Cotton Belt. eXtension is a new tool for Cooperative Extension educators, agents and specialists to use in engaging existing and new customers and clients.
Robertson said, for example, cotton specialists from multiple disciplines across theCotton Belt have combined early-season Best Management Practices (BMP) from their area of specialization into a single document, “The “First 40 Days.” That publication, along with a soon to be available mid-and-late-season companion, “Fruiting to Finish,” provide an excellent foundation and guide for implementing and executing a successful cotton production system.
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