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Tarnished Plant Bug Management in 2024

With cotton squaring, growers should have someone scouting their fields weekly for tarnished plant bugs. With the dry conditions, most of the adults are in silking corn. As corn pollinates and the…

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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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Insecticide Recommendations for Tarnished Plant Bug

With more cotton starting to square, ALL cotton in the state should be scouted so that we maintain acceptable square load to bring us into blooming (see this previous article for how to scout and use…

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Scouting Tarnished Plant Bug (How Not to Miss a Spray)

As mentioned in the 2019 North Carolina Cotton Information guide, “the key to successful cotton production in North Carolina is the adoption of a short-season management strategy”. Specifically,…

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Section 18 Emergency Exemption Approved for Transform in 2019 Cotton- Plant Bugs

Effective May 1, 2019, and expiring October 30, 2019, Transform has been approved for use in cotton as an emergency exemption to manage tarnished plant bugs in North Carolina. This timely approval…

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Manage Bollworm First, but Don't Forget Stink Bugs and Plant Bugs

As predicted, our first bollworm flight into cotton has been early and heavy. While our recommendation still stands to be prepared to use insecticides for bollworm overtop Bt cotton (click here),…