Source: Ron Smith, FARM PROGRESS, 8/28/19


Nematodes are stealing as much as 10 percent of U.S. cotton production annually and many producers are not aware that they are being robbed. “Yield losses of 10 percent within a field are common and often go unnoticed,” says Clemson University Extension nematologist John Mueller. “Yield losses in some fields,” he said at a recent PhytoGen field day in Lee County, S.C., “can exceed 50 percent.”

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