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Cotton farmers, particularly those accustomed to spaying a single herbicide on their crops, may need to dust off some of the old equipment and herbicides they or their fathers used in the 1980s and 90s. Texas A&M University’s Wayne Keeling explained why during this presentation at Monsanto’s Weed and Water Summit in Lubbock, Texas....More

After years of listening to tales of epic battles with pigweed in the Southeast, Texas cotton producers no longer can afford to be interested bystanders in the battle against glyphosate-resistant weeds. Texas A&M’s Paul Baumann says growers need to be prepared to kill every amaranthus species weed they see in their fields to hope to have any success against them. He spoke at this year’s Beltwide Cotton Conferences in San Antonio....More

For years, cotton entomologists held regular, informal discussions about what was working and what was not when it came to controlling cotton insects. A few years ago, Mississippi State University’s Jeff Gore began conducting an electronic survey of university entomologists from the Carolinas to California....More

As the world's largest textile-producing country, China has an extraordinary impact on the world cotton market. Lately, China's reserve program has been having a largely negative effect that backs all the way into the pipeline in the United States....More