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The Cotman Expert System of Cotton Plant Monitoring: 1997 Update

M.J. Cochran, D. Danforth, F.M. Bourland, N.P. Tugwell, Jr., and D.M. Oosterhuis


 
ABSTRACT

COTMAN provides a continuous, in-season method of crop monitoring to assist with achieving timely, early maturation by the use of two components; SQUAREMAN and BOLLMAN. SQUAREMAN utilizes SquareMap data to primarily determine if square retention is acceptible and if plants are developing at an acceptable rate. SQUAREMAN field reports include evaluation of squaring node development, square retention (rates, analysis of change in retention, and comparison to the shed rate limit), plant vigor, population (number of plants and first-position squares) estimates, and crop status compared to the target development curve. The SQUAREMAN farm level report summarizes square shed, plant vigor and nodal development for all fields.



Reprinted from Proceedings of the 1997 Beltwide Cotton Conferences pg. 474
©National Cotton Council, Memphis TN

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