Cotton/Feed Grains In-Service Training

1. Cotton/Feed Grains In-Service Training Ken Smith, Bob Scott Ferndale Dec. 9, 2010

2. New Stuff • $1.00 Cotton • Reflex Label • Warrant • Monsanto Program • AR 48

3. 2011 Performance Plus Program * Based upon the published seed drop rate. Requirement to qualify: plant Genuity® Roundup Ready® Flex in the Mid-South and Southeast

4. Most Dangerous Words Ever Spoken I thought I could get by “One More Year”

5. Managing Palmer is a “Numbers Game” 1,774,900 Seed

6. Thought For The Day “The soil seedbank must be stable or decreasing in order to be sustainable!”

7. Pigweed Seed

8. Numbers Game • 300,000 - 90% loss = 27,000 seed • 27,000 – 99% control = 270 plants

9. Numbers Game • 300,000 - 95% loss = 15,000 seed • 15,000 – 99% control = 150 plants

10. Numbers Game • 150 x 33% female = 50 females/A • 50 X 150,000 seed = 7,500,000 • 7,500,000 – 95% - 99% control = 3750 plants/A

11. Most Dangerous Words Ever Spoken I thought I could get by “One More Year”

12. “Horseweed” To “Nightmare” in 2003

13. Disk is Only Option

14. Will Not Harvest Next Year

15. RR soybean no PRE; $65 herbicide costs grabbing at straws Regrowth after chopping