Cotton fiber represented by the Cotton LEADS program is now considered 100 percent bio-based by USDA, following recent revisions to its BioPreferred Program guidelines.
It makes sense for Georgia – the first state to confirm glyphosate resistant pigweed – to be one of the first places for the investment in pigweed control to begin visibly paying off.
A significant cooperative accomplishment has been made in the sequencing of the cotton genome, which will fuel multi-disciplinary basic and applied research to help increase cotton productivity.