Features & Benefits | Grower Experience | Herbicide Formulations | Yield Results

Providing simplicity, time savings and improved weed control for cotton growers

The Roundup Ready^® Flex cotton system provides greater simplicity, flexibility and time savings due to increased herbicide application flexibility. The technology allows growers to spray Roundup^® agricultural herbicides over the top from cotton emergence up to one week prior to harvest.

This wider, more flexible application window enables producers to target weeds according to the right stage of development for optimal control, versus the stage of cotton growth. That means less stress in trying to get across the field to spray over the top by the fourth leaf stage.

Roundup Ready Flex cotton was launched in 2006 on more than 2 million acres across the Cotton Belt. Growers reported they were pleased with the simplicity, convenience, greater efficiency, improved weed control and crop safety they experienced.

Many Roundup Ready Flex products are also stacked with Bollgard II^®, which offers unrivaled protection from budworms, bollworms, armyworms, loopers and other key cotton pests.

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Features & Benefits

Roundup Ready^® Flex cotton offers a number of key advantages to cotton growers compared to original Roundup Ready cotton and to conventional cotton herbicide programs.

• Enhanced flexibility and convenience, due to the wider herbicide application window.

• Significant time savings* to devote to other farming operations, to enjoy leisure activities or simply to spend more time with family and friends, because of the ability to:

  • Tank-mix Roundup^® agricultural herbicides with plant growth regulators or insecticides

  • Spray over the top past the fourth-leaf stage, reducing your dependence on much slower hooded sprayers or shields.

  • Reduce or eliminate worm sprays, when Roundup Ready Flex products are also stacked with Bollgard II^®.

• Less dependence on selective spray equipment.

• Potential for greater weed control efficacy due the extended period of herbicide application.

• Enhanced crop safety during sensitive cotton reproductive stages.

• Ability to tailor herbicide applications to weed height/stage instead of cotton stage of development.

The simplicity and flexibility of Bollgard II with Roundup Ready Flex cotton is particularly beneficial for growers who will also be managing increased corn and grain sorghum acres in 2007.

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Grower Experience

Producers Cite Increased Flexibility and Productivity

Growers who planted the Roundup Ready^® Flex cotton system in 2006 reported were pleased with the simplicity, time savings, improved weed control and crop safety they experienced. Many of these growers selected Roundup Ready Flex products also stacked with the unrivaled worm control of Bollgard II^®.

Click on the links below to see what several Roundup Ready Flex growers have to say about this technology.

• Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton Solves "Not Enough Hours in the Day" Dilemma

• Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton a Time-Saver for this Farmer

• Grower Not Squeezed by the Four-Leaf Stage

• Greater Flexibility and Time Savings Will Help This Tennessee Grower Better Manger 4,000 Cotton Acres

• Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton Frees Up time for Multiple Enterprisess

• Bollgard II^® with Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton Makes Delta Cotton Production "Four Times Easier"

• Grower Sees Many Benefits from Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton

• Mark McNabb Interview

• Carroll Lohse Interview

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Herbicide Formulations

Roundup^® with CROPSHIELD™ Formulas Provide Crop Safety in Roundup Ready^® Flex Cotton

Because cotton growing requires a significant financial commitment, producers want to be able to count on reliable weed control and crop safety to protect their investment.

Roundup^® with CROPSHIELD™ Formulas were specifically developed for over-the-top applications past the fourth-leaf stage with the Roundup Ready^® Flex cotton system. Only by using a CROPSHIELD Formula can a Roundup Ready Flex grower be confident that he is getting the proven, unsurpassed weed control of Roundup plus optimal crop safety in over-the-top applications.

CROPSHIELD Formulas are available in Roundup WeatherMAX^® and Roundup PowerMAX™. The Roundup with CROPSHIELD Formulas were tested in over 1,600 side-by-side trials prior to introduction in 2006.

Growers who used CROPSHIELD Formulas this past season were pleased with its performance. Eight out of ten growers said Roundup with CROPSHIELD formulas have better crop safety than competitive herbicides.

Roundup® with CROPSHIELD™ Formula delivers unsurpassed weed control and is proven crop safe in more than 1,600 side-by-side comparisons. Pictured above on the left is crop injury when a competitor herbicide was applied at the 1X labeled rate. The photo on the right illustrates crop safety with Roundup CROPSHIELD Formula applied at the 1 X labeled rate.

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Yield Results

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Alabama (.pdf 278K)
Arkansas (.pdf 215K)
Georgia (.pdf 281K)
Louisiana (.pdf 280K)
Missouri (.pdf 249K)
Mississippi (.pdf 285K)
North Carolina (.pdf 282K)
South Carolina (.pdf 279K)
Tennessee (.pdf 248K)
Texas (.pdf 247K)
Virginia (.pdf 278K)

Related Resources

• Learn about the benefits of growing Bollgard II^® cotton with Roundup Ready^® Flex

• Roundup Ready Flex Cotton Technical Bulletin (.pdf 227K)

• Roundup Ready Flex Cotton Brochure (.pdf 3.35MB)

• Seed Pro University On-Line Dealer Training

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