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Insect Control

Insect Management in ThryvOn Cotton

⋅ BY DOMINIC REISIG & ANDERS HUSETH ⋅ Bollgard® 3 ThryvOn™ cotton with XtendFlex® has now received full commercialization for 2023 planting. Our programs have worked with the toxin expressed in ThryvOn cotton since 2014, looking at both basic and...

Cover crops provide habitat for predator insects that may help control pests

Both traditional and organic producers are increasing their use of cover crops for a variety of reasons — to control erosion, choke out weeds, improve soil health and enhance water availability. Now research by University of Georgia scientists is...

Be Ready For Armyworms

Conditions Favorable For Pest Populations To Build • By Amanda Huber, Southeast Editor • Will cotton avoid the march of fall armyworms that lay siege to hayfields, turf crops and vegetables this summer? From Texas to Arkansas and down to Florida, the...

They’re B-A-C-K! Be prepared for another round of armyworms

• By Sandy Steckel and Scott Stewart • We are currently experiencing another round of fall armyworm in bermudagrass here at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Jackson, Tennessee, and this is also occurring elsewhere. We wouldn’t be...

Preparing The Crop For Harvest

I once had a girl friend named “Earlene” (not her real name). Earlene was attending a pre-wedding function in Birmingham on a Saturday and had to travel through Decatur where I was working. With my boss’ permission, I invited...

Should you stop treating cotton for insects?

• By Dominic Reisig • Should I treat this cotton for bollworm eggs, plant bugs or stink bugs? This is not a one-size-fits-all answer, but here are a few scenarios to consider. 1) Delayed cotton with low yield potential The good...

Industry News For August 2021

Rhino Medical Supply Tapped As Exclusive Distributor For Cotton Medical Scrubs Field to Closet’s vision of providing 100% Deltapine cotton medical scrubs crafted with cotton grown in Georgia and created in an end-to-end U.S. supply chain took a giant step...

Always Have A Plan In Place To ‘Conquer The Curveball’

Dave Hudgens was an outstanding baseball player for the Sun Devils at the University of Arizona. During his college career, he racked up some solid stats. After graduating, he played in the minor leagues for a few years and...

2021: Bollworm boom or bust?

• By Anders Huseth • As we near early August, cotton growers should be shifting their focus from early season insects to late season pests that arrive after bloom, particularly bollworms and stink bugs. Bollworms have been a persistent pest...

Unusually high plant bug populations headed for Arkansas cotton

• By Ryan McGeeney • As they say, there’s no accounting for taste. Plant bugs, a perennial pest of Arkansas cotton, spend much of June and early July feasting on the silk of corn while it’s still green, the plants still...

Midseason Management

This is supposed to be about midseason management. I listen to my esteemed colleague from Arizona Dr. Randy Norton talk about growing cotton in the desert. I am amazed at what they know and how they go about producing the...

Get to know the different plant bug species

• By Sebe Brown and Tyler Towles • With Louisiana experiencing warm days and adequate moisture, much of the cotton has grown out of the thrips susceptibility stage (one- to four-leaf cotton) and is beginning to put on squares. Square initiation results...

Floods cause $200 million-plus in crop damage in SE Arkansas

• By Ryan McGeeney • Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...

Post-flood crop management meeting set for June 21 in Dumas, Ark.

Farmers who suffered flooding and other damage from heavy rain and winds last week will be able to get their post-flood production questions answered by University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture agronomists and specialists at a meeting June...

2021 Planting Progress

We are having a normal planting season as many areas are too dry and others have wet places in the fields that farmers have to plant around. Non-irrigated growers often plant cotton before peanuts until it gets too dry...

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