Cotton Insect Management Tools from Novartis Crop Protection.

Novartis Crop Protection Incorporated is developing several insecticides for control of thrips, aphids, flea hoopers, whiteflies, and foliar and boll feeding lepidoptera. The active ingredients, which include thaiamethoxam, pymetrozine, and emamectin benzoate, exert a minimal effect on nontarget organisms or benefical insects that occur i..

Cotton Quality Needs to Be Improved: SIMA

India produces 170 lakh bales of cotton per year, but Indian cotton remains the most contaminated cotton in the world. The Indian yarn spinning industry continues to use superior quality imported cotton. The Southern India Mills' Association believes that Indian farmers need to use better quality seed cotton and integrated pest management..

The Cotton Plant.

In its native habitat, cotton is a perennial that does not die in the fall. During periods of drought, the most mature cotton bolls continue to develop and less mature bolls abscise. Cotton's indeterminant fruiting habit derives from its perennial nature. In North Carolina, cotton blooms for up to eight weeks. True leaves appear 7-10 days..

Performance and Insect Control Cost of Bollgard vs Conventional Varieties in Tennessee.

Field trials comparing the lint yield performance of Bollgard and non-Bollgard cotton varieties determined that Bollgard cotton, averaged across all locations, produced an 85 pound and 17 pound lint yield per acre increase in 1998 and 1999, respectively. Yield differences at individual field sites ranged from -29 pounds to 339 pounds in 1..

Report of the 1999 Cotton Weed Loss Committee.

Tables list estimated cotton yield losses by weed genera in 1999, acres infested by weed genera in 1999, herbicide use in 1999, and bales reduced for grass contamination from 1999-2000 in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennes..

Impact of Tarnished Plant Bugs on Cotton: Insecticide Efficacy and Varietal Response.

In field trials comparing foliar spray insecticides for the control of the tarnished plant bug, Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), insecticides that provided effective control of both adults and nymphs included Orthene 90S (0.5 pound active ingredient per acre), Regent 2.5EC(0.05 pound active ingredient per acre), and Monitor (0.33 p..

Management of Heliothine Complex Using Traditional and New Insecticides.

Field trials in Arkansas compared the effectiveness of five new insecticides--Steward (indoxacarb), Denim (emamectrin benzoate), Tracer (spinosad), Intrepid (RH-2485), and Leverage (cyfluthrin and imidacloprid)--with Karate and Asana for controlling tobacco budworm in cotton. All new insecticides provided effective control of tobacco budw..

Variety Selection.

Nine seed companies offer more than 55 different varieties of cotton seed for cultivation in North Carolina. Factors in selecting a cotton variety include yield, plant height, maturity, plant hairiness, seed size, and fiber quality. Soil fertility levels and plant growth regulators influence plant height. The proper choice of maturity pot..

Cotton Information.

An overview of cotton growing in North Carolina addresses United States cotton production and profitability, the development of the cotton plant, cotton variety selection, seed quality, fertilization, the use of growth regulators, cotton disease management, weed management, defoliation, sprayer calibration, water quality protection, reduc..

Cotton Yield and Quality-- Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Challenges to the competitiveness of the United States cotton industry include maintaining high yield and fiber quality. Overlapping segmental rate analyses of upland cotton yield trends indicated changes in cotton yield from 1960-1999. The rate of change in yield reversed its negative trend in 1972 and increased up to 1985. The rate of c..