Broadcast Newsline: April 19, 2013

When soil testing and making pre-planting decisions, using tools like the field to market calculator can help increase your sustainability, cut down costs on your farm, and maintain the health of your soil.

Today's Cotton Newsline is 3 cuts. All cuts are Lori Gibson, Row Crops Sustainability Specialist with University of Tennessee's Biosystems Engineering program.

Suggested Introduction 1:

When soil testing and making pre-planting decisions, using tools like the field to market calculator can help increase your sustainability, cut down costs on your farm, and maintain the health of your soil. Lori Gibson, Row Crops Sustainability Specialist with University of Tennessee's Biosystems Engineering program, clears up some misconceptions about sustainability and what it means to cotton producers.

Suggested Introduction 2:

A thorough, annual soil test is ideal, but it can be very costly for producers.

Suggested Introduction 3:

Instead of guessing on your applications, Gibson suggests producers turn to tools like the field to market calculator to help you make those big decisions.

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