Arresting Resistance
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
Herbicide resistance is a growing threat to efficient cotton production. The National Cotton Council (NCC) is escalating its educational effort to help its member producers address this concern.
How has the NCC communicated thus far?
The NCC has emphasized herbicide resistance management in a variety of ways. It has been a major program topic at the past four NCC-coordinated Beltwide Cotton Conferences. Expert weed scientists provided information to help producers adjust their weed management programs to manage resistant weeds and to delay or hopefully avoid the development of resistant weeds.
Herbicide resistance management was discussed during a series of NCC-coordinated "best management practices" forums in the Mid-South and Texas. In addition, the NCC has contributed information in several publications that have been distributed to its members and developed a "Weed Resistance" DVD. The DVD enabled producers to share their on-farm experiences with herbicide-resistant weeds, describe the significant change that herbicide-resistant weeds had forced on their operations, and encourage those producers who had yet to encounter herbicide-resistant weeds in their fields to be proactive in avoiding the problem. More than 2,500 copies of the DVD were mailed out to producer leaders, Extension scientists and interest organizations.
source : cottonfarming
Mark Lange
NCC President/CEO
Herbicide resistance is a growing threat to efficient cotton production. The National Cotton Council (NCC) is escalating its educational effort to help its member producers address this concern.
How has the NCC communicated thus far?
The NCC has emphasized herbicide resistance management in a variety of ways. It has been a major program topic at the past four NCC-coordinated Beltwide Cotton Conferences. Expert weed scientists provided information to help producers adjust their weed management programs to manage resistant weeds and to delay or hopefully avoid the development of resistant weeds.
Herbicide resistance management was discussed during a series of NCC-coordinated "best management practices" forums in the Mid-South and Texas. In addition, the NCC has contributed information in several publications that have been distributed to its members and developed a "Weed Resistance" DVD. The DVD enabled producers to share their on-farm experiences with herbicide-resistant weeds, describe the significant change that herbicide-resistant weeds had forced on their operations, and encourage those producers who had yet to encounter herbicide-resistant weeds in their fields to be proactive in avoiding the problem. More than 2,500 copies of the DVD were mailed out to producer leaders, Extension scientists and interest organizations.
source : cottonfarming
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