I know the question itself sounds overly dramatic. I didn’t use that title for emphasis either. I’ve been to the Beltwide Cotton Conference every year for two decades now. It’s a conference that can test physical and mental strength. After all these years, I still remember my first Beltwide.

I was in graduate school working for an agricultural publications company and it was my first big professional conference. Everyone else in the office had been before and seemed to know a lot of the names and faces. I, on the other hand, was the person who had to record … Full Article »