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2009-02-05 | permalink
Hungry insects crowd GE cotton’s table in the USA
The rapid decline in U.S. cotton acreage means one thing to Mid-South entomologists and producers — the cotton dinner table is even more crowded with sucking insects. [...] ” [Glyphosate] Resistant Palmer pigweed is part of the driving force for our cotton acres decreasing in my part of the Mid-South. Ninety percent control is not adequate anymore. Yield reductions will occur and revenues will be lost. The spread of resistance was almost overnight. Many suspicious plants in the 2006 growing season in isolated areas were almost field-wide in 2007, in cotton and every other crop we grow.”
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2009-02-05 | permalink
Hungry insects crowd GE cotton’s table in the USA
The rapid decline in U.S. cotton acreage means one thing to Mid-South entomologists and producers — the cotton dinner table is even more crowded with sucking insects. [...] ” [Glyphosate] Resistant Palmer pigweed is part of the driving force for our cotton acres decreasing in my part of the Mid-South. Ninety percent control is not adequate anymore. Yield reductions will occur and revenues will be lost. The spread of resistance was almost overnight. Many suspicious plants in the 2006 growing season in isolated areas were almost field-wide in 2007, in cotton and every other crop we grow.”
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