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Insecticide Recommendations for Tarnished Plant Bug

As cotton starts to square, it’s time for growers to check their fields every week for tarnished plant bugs. These pests can hurt your yield, especially early in the season. If we protect the first…

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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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Saving Money on Cotton in 2025? Don't Skimp on Scouting & Treating Mite and Insect Pests

With cotton prices down, many growers are looking for ways to cut production costs. This article emphasizes the importance of staying diligent in scouting and treating mite and insect pests in…

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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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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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Bollworm Flight Has Started- Scouting Tips

Bollworm moth catches have been ticking up across the state this week, especially in southern counties of the state. Any cotton that is blooming is highly attractive places for moths to lay…

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Early and Mid-Season Insecticide Recommendations for Tarnished Plant Bug

We recently published a holistic article to plan for tarnished plant bug in 2023. Since then, we have received a lot of questions about what to use at this point in the season as folks are making…

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How to Nail 2023 Thrips Management (Reisig, Huseth)

With planters rolling soon, we urge growers to think about thrips management now. The best source of information for thrips activity is the Thrips Infestation Predictor. This online tool forecasts…

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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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Plant Bug Management in Cotton

Cotton must be managed differently pre- and post-bloom. First of all, we need to use the correct sampling method. The importance of this has been covered previously. Briefly, adults colonize cotton…