Maximize yield and quality potential of cottonseed with industry-leading traits from PhytoGen
The latest lineup of PhytoGen® brand varieties offers growers more in-plant protection options to help cotton thrive, protect quality and …
PhytoGen cottonseed helps grower achieve best crop ever
For cotton growers across South and Central Texas, outbesting their best each year is no small task. With cotton planting …
Sponsor: Bollgard 3 XtendFlex Cotton Launch Announced
Monsanto Company in December announced the commercialization of its new Bollgard® 3 XtendFlex® cotton technology, the first commercial cotton product …
By Jim Steadman: It’s shaping up to be a good year for U.S. cotton. But the line separating the bulls and bears in the market remains thin.
By Jim Steadman: When development started squeezing their Texas farmland, Jim and JP Jansen began looking for options to protect their family farming history. They found their answer 150 miles away.
Sponsor: Breeding and Testing Cotton in Texas for Texas
Since 2010, when Monsanto opened the doors of its cotton breeding and testing facility in Lubbock, the focus to develop …
Sponsor: Deltapine® Varieties Offer Strong Performance, Better Weed Control in 2017
U.S. EPA and the state of Texas have approved XtendiMax™ herbicide with VaporGrip™ Technology, a low-volatility dicamba herbicide, for in-crop …
Sponsor: Strong Cotton for Texas
The 2016 season gave Texas growers some ideal growing conditions at times, and threw them some tough conditions, as well. …
By Beck Barnes: The 2017 growing season is shaping up to be a good one in the Lone Star State. Cotton prices are rebounding and acreage is poised to remain robust.
Thriving begins with the right varieties
For cotton grower Casey Jones, thriving in cotton begins with selecting the right variety for each situation. He looks for …
Bayer Announces Price Cuts for Ignite Herbicide
Bayer CropScience has announced a price reduction Ignite herbicide of approximately 20 percent. Ignite is non-selective herbicide alternative to glyphosate …
Maximize yield and quality potential of cottonseed with industry-leading traits from PhytoGen
The latest lineup of PhytoGen® brand varieties offers growers more in-plant protection options to help cotton thrive, protect quality and …
Resistance Management a Hot Topic at Gin Show
Farmers are gathering in Memphis for the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show this weekend. The show provides farmers a chance …
Don’t Give Pigweed The Light Of Day
For the last three years, the Beltwide has kicked off with the Consultants Conference, sponsored by Syngenta, Bayer CropScience and …
Kichler Tabbed for ‘Resistance Fighter of the Year’
Syngenta has named Jeremy Kichler of Oglethorpe, GA, as one of two producers selected for the 2009 Resistance Fighters of …
Proactively Managing Resistance
Season-long weed control is vital to combating tough weeds on the farm. Roundup Ready Cotton Performance Plus, a Monsanto residual …
It’s only natural that the most promising research in the battle against glyphosate resistance is coming out of the Georgia …
For Dr. Bill Robertson and a group of Mid-South cotton growers, a recent trip to the Texas High Plains brought …
Weed Control Planning Begins Now
When faced with the challenge of preparing for next year’s crop, weed-control planning done now can help growers get the …
Australian Association Issues 2,4D Use Reminder
This week, Cotton Australia issued a reminder to cotton farmers to exercise extreme caution when using 2,4D phenoxy herbicides to …
BASF’s Kixor Herbicide Technology Gets Approval from EPA
announced today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration of a new active ingredient, Kixor herbicide, for use on a wide …
Monsanto Outlines Changes to Roundup Herbicide Business
Monsanto Company recently outlined changes to its Roundup brand agricultural herbicide business which are expected to result in more competitive …
It’s not as if cotton growers in the Mid-South hadn’t been warned. Since the first cases of glyphosate resistance were …
Avoid Inversions When Spraying Weeds
Dr. Larry Steckel offers tips to help avoid potential problems when spraying dicamba in inversion conditions, even when proper guidelines are being followed.
In a video presentation, Tennessee Weed Specialist Larry Steckel discusses three actions to help reduce dicamba drift and volatilization.
Dicamba Damage Reports Increasing in Arkansas
Forty complaints from off-target movement of dicamba have already been reported to the Arkansas State Plant Board, as of June 12.
Glyphosate-Resistant Johnsongrass Focus of New Webcast
A new webcast on effective management of glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass has been added to the Focus on Cotton online series from the Plant Management Network and Cotton Incorporated.
Weed Control Options in Light of Herbicide Shortages
Tennessee Extension Weed Specialist Larry Steckel outlines several options for early season cotton weed control in light of shortages of Caporol, Cotoran and Diuron.
Cooperation, Preparation Are Keys to Ag Sustainability
Georgia’s Stanley Culpepper outlines the training efforts for auxin herbicides in the state and praises the people who make it all work.
Upgrading Cotton Weed Control Step by Step
To control yield-robbing weeds, farmers need a step by step strategy, starting with a clean, weed-free field, followed by timely applications of herbicides with multiple modes of action.
Foliar Auxin Injury Not Good Indicator of Yield Loss
According to High Plains cotton and weed specialists, the relationship between injury from auxin herbicides and potential yield loss is difficult – if not impossible – to accurately predict.
Multiple Pre-Emerge Residual Options for Cotton
An apparent shortage of Caparol has some cotton growers scrambling to find alternatives for their pre-emergence residual herbicide program.
More Responsibilities with New Cotton Technologies
From a cotton farming standpoint, it may be more important now than ever to match your surroundings with your weed control responsibilities.
Extension experts say hooded booms like Willmar’s Redball hooded sprayers increase accuracy and minimize drift.
