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Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) Yield Response to Cultivation Timing and Frequency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Charles E. Snipes ,
Daniel L. Colvin ,
Michael G. Patterson  and
Stephen H. Crawford
Charles E. Snipes
Affiliation:
Miss. Agric. and For. Exp. Stn., Delta Branch, Stoneville, MS 38776
Daniel L. Colvin
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron., Univ. Fla., Gainesville, FL 32611
Michael G. Patterson
Affiliation:
Dep. Agron. Soils, Auburn Univ., AL 36849
Stephen H. Crawford
Affiliation:
La. State Univ. Agric. Cent., La. Agric. Exp. Stn., Northeast Res. Stn., St. Joseph, LA 71366
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Abstract

A four-state study was initiated in 1988 to evaluate the influence of cultivation frequency and initiation on the cotton plant. When cultivations were initiated at 1 or 2 wk after emergence and cultivated weekly at a frequency of zero, one, two, four, or six times, seed cotton yields were not affected on a consistent basis. When averaged over cultivation frequency, seed cotton yields were increased for three of nine year-locations when cultivations were initiated at 2 wk after emergence when compared with 1 wk after emergence. At two locations, when seed cotton yields were averaged over initiation timing, it was shown that only two cultivations were necessary to achieve optimum seed cotton yields.

Keywords

Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L. ‘DES 119’Cultural controlmechanical controlweed-free response
Type
Research
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1992 , pp. 31 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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