Cotton Planting Conditions May 3, 2022
We have a few more days of decent planting weather with a cool spell coming May 7 though 10. …
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Cotton Planting Conditions April 26, 2022
Soil temperature at Rocky Mount was 64 degrees at 8 this morning, but we still have a few more …
Cotton Planting Conditions April 22, 2022
Soil temperatures were 56 degrees at 8 a.m. at Rocky Mount this morning. They did climb to 65 by …
GMO Tomatoes Could Be Returning After 25 Years. Will People Eat Them?
DR. Cathie Martin, a public scientist at the John Innes Center in England, developed a purple tomato that has …
Dealing With Shortages of Glyphosate and Glufosinate
We may need to revert to some more conventional methods of weed control with shortages of glyphosate and glufosinate. …
Plant Pandemics
Covid 19 has made the potential for human pandemics clear to us. We saw the value of biotechnology in …
National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law Goes Into Effect
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law requires the labeling of bioengineered foods, which much of the public knows as GMOs. …
Preliminary OVT Data for 2021
Results from 2021 averaged over locations: 2021 Cotton Statewide Table with exp 3-year average performance of cotton varieties: 2021 Cotton Three Year …
Philippines Becomes First Country to Approve Nutrient-Enriched “Golden Rice” for Planting
The Philippines have become the first country to approve Golden Rice. Golden Rice has been genetically engineered to produce …
Interview With Jennifer Thomson, Author of GM Crops and the Global Divide
Dr. Jennifer Thompson is a Emeritus Professor of Microbiology in the Molecular and Cell Biology department at the University …
Plant Pandemics
COVID-19 has made the potential for human pandemics clear to us. We saw the value of biotechnology in quickly …
Cotton Planting Conditions May 16, 2021
Conditions are looking much better. You can see below that we are close to bumping that morning soil temperature …