Among various factors like poor plant population, attack of insect pests, imbalanced use of fertilisers and cotton leaf curl virus, weeds also play major role in reducing the seed cotton yield on ...

Weeds compete with crops for resources such as water, nutrients and sunlight, and lower yields in major crops by as much as ...

Controlling weeds: Cotton producers have searched for methods ... In weed free fields infested soil, dry grass or straw should not be used. Strict legislation and quarantine standards must be ...

COLLEGE STATION - A newly developed fertilizer system will provide nutrition to engineered cotton crops worldwide and a deadly dose to weeds that are increasingly herbicide resistant, according to ...

A newly developed fertilizer system will provide nutrition to engineered cotton crops worldwide and a deadly dose to weeds that are increasingly herbicide resistant, according to a new study.

Ph.D., Texas Tech University Rockwell Chair of Weed Science, spoke at the Plains Cotton Growers Annual Meeting and Cotton U event in March. Dotray listed multiple challenges with managing weeds ...

Because the weeds don't have the same trait, they are essentially starved of nutrients. For decades, the magic formula was to spray fields full of cotton genetically engineered to resist ...

Tifton, Ga. | The cotton industry is concerned about a herbicide-resistant weed that spreads easily, can grow an inch a day and could force farmers to return to growing methods that were harsher ...

Q: What is the best timing to put out my pre-emergent weed control and grass seed? It seems they both need to be done in the fall. Which comes first? How much time should elapse between them?