by Gaylon Morgan, Josh McGinty, and Dale Mott The 2017 Cotton Variety Results for the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Coastal Bend, Upper Gulf Coast, Winter Garden and Blacklands are available at Cotton.tamu.edu/ or going directly to Cotton Variety Testing.  This booklet includes 15 large-plot on-farm trials and 3 Monster Trials.  The location specifics for each trial location is listed in Table 1, including the cooperator, planting and harvest dates, and other agronomic considerations. We recommend growers gather as much information as possible from this RACE booklet and other sources on… Read More →

by Scott Nolte, State Extension Weed Scientists; Gaylon Morgan, State Extension Cotton Specialist; Josh McGinty, Extension Agronomist at Corpus Christi; Pete Dotray, Weed Scientist at Lubbock. Dicamba tolerant cotton and soybean varieties were brought to the market in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and were followed in 2017 by the newly registered dicamba herbicides formulated specifically to have lower volatility.  Following a challenging launch in 2017 of these newly registered herbicides in some states, the EPA worked with companies registering the new dicamba formulations to make revisions to those… Read More →