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Preserve Cotton Yield by Addressing Tarnished Plant Bug

With low cotton prices, growers are rightly looking to reduce the cost of production. This previous article details why growers should not skimp on mite and insect pest management. This article…

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Should You Treat ThryvOn Cotton With Insecticide?

The short answer for thrips is no, and for plant bugs, yes, if it hits threshold. We covered this in a 2023 article, but here is some more justification.ThripsThryvOn cotton is an egg-laying and…

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Insect Management in ThryvOn Cotton

Article by Reisig and HusethBollgard® 3 ThryvOn™ cotton with XtendFlex® has now received full commercialization for 2023 planting. Our programs have worked with the toxin expressed in ThryvOn cotton…

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Should You Stop Treating Cotton for Insects?

Should I treat this cotton for bollworm eggs, plant bugs or stink bugs? This is a question I have been getting a lot this year with all our delayed and late-planted cotton. Of course it's not a…

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Be Prepared to Spray Bollworm in Bt Cotton This Year- Change in Recommendation

As noted in this complementary article, bollworm populations have been heavy this year in corn and they are breaking through a lot of Bt corn. What that means for cotton growers is that they need to…

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Bollworms in Bt Cotton

We are between flights right now (access the trap data and select "corn earworm" on the right), having experienced our major bollworm (aka corn earworm) flight during the first week of August. Most…