Source: SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 2/7/17

With U.S. cotton producers indicating they plan to increase their acres of the crop in many areas in 2017 U.S. seed companies have stepped up to the plate with an increased number of new varieties. Many of the new offerings will contain the latest herbicide trait packages, which, for the first time, can be sprayed – legally – with new formulations of the products aimed at helping growers fight herbicide-resistant weeds. Others will have new Bt traits.

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