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Bollgard II® Cotton with Roundup Ready® Flex
Offers Ultimate in Convenience and Flexibility
Planting cotton varieties stacked with the Bollgard II® and Roundup Ready® Flex cotton traits provides growers with maximum flexibility and convenience.
With the Roundup Ready Flex cotton system, growers get unsurpassed weed control as well as simplicity, increased flexibility to manage their spray schedules and significant time savings to use as they see fit. The wider window for over-the-top applications of Roundup® agricultural herbicides allows growers to spray all season long for maximum flexibility and better weed control.
Bollgard II stops the most worms with fewer sprays to maximize yield potential. Bollgard II offers unrivaled, built-in worm control to control the most leaf and boll feeding worm species, including bollworms, budworms, armyworms, loopers, saltmarsh caterpillars and cotton leaf perforators.
These benefits are especially important to cotton growers who manage multiple crops, such as corn and grain sorghum.
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The wider herbicide application window of Roundup Ready Flex eliminates the stress of getting out to the field to spray over the top by the fourth-leaf stage. That provides greater timing flexibility for producers to manage other crops.
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Because of the more flexible application timing, producers can manage around adverse weather conditions, such as wind, to avoid off-site drift.
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Planting Bollgard II with Roundup Ready Flex helps growers save time to devote to other farming operations. Field trials during 2006 showed a potential time savings of up to 100 hours during the growing season on a 2,000-acre operation by: -
Reducing trips across the field by tank-mixing Roundup® agricultural herbicides with plant growth regulators or insecticides
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Reducing or eliminating the need for worm sprays.
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Spraying over the top past the fourth-leaf stage, which can reduce dependence on shields or hooded sprayers.
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Corn and grain sorghum are natural hosts that can produce large numbers of cotton bollworm and fall armyworms that are effectively controlled by Bollgard II.
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Managing worm pests in cotton is the most critical in late summer, when southern growers also begin harvesting corn. Bollgard II stops the most worms with fewer sprays, and that means growers with multiple crops can focus on other things.
For additional information, please visit the Bollgard II and Roundup Ready Flex home pages.
Related Resources
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Roundup Ready Flex Cotton Brochure (.pdf 3.35MB)
Gin by-products of cotton containing Monsanto;s biotech traits, including cottonseed for feed uses, are fully approved for export to Canada, Japan, Mexico and South Korea. Cottonseed containing Monsanto traits may not be exported for the purpose of planting without a license from Monsanto.
Always read and follow pesticide label directions and insect resistance management requirements. Roundup Ready® crops contain genes that confer tolerance to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup agricultural herbicides. Roundup® agricultural herbicides will kill crops that are not glyphosate tolerant. Growers should be sure that the glyphosate product used in these applications over Roundup Ready Flex cotton has been tested for that use so as to reduce the risk of leaf damage. See the Roundup Ready Flex Technical Use Guide for details. Roundup®, Roundup Ready® and Bollgard II® are registered trademarks of Monsanto Technology LLC. ©2007 Monsanto Company.
