PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1988: BELTWIDE COTTON PRODUCTION CONFERENCE
Jan. 5-8, New Orleans, LA
Editors
C. Paul Dugger & Debbie A. Richter

TABLE OF CONTENTS



BELTWIDE COTTON PRODUCTION CONFERENCE

Conference Chairman's Address
Bruce Brumfield
2
U.S. and World Cotton Outlook
William B. Dunavant, Jr.
3
Comparison of Cotton Production Costs in the U.S. with Costs in Competing Countries
Don Ethridge and Priscilla Andrew
5
Insight into Cotton Production, Handling and Marketing Practices in the PRC
Dewell R. Gandy
8
Marketing Developments and New Opportunities
J. Nicholas Hahn
9
Quality Needs from the Viewpoint of International Spinners
Sebastian Otto
10
Changes in the Cotton Program: Definition of Person, Payment Limitations, Etc.
Dennis Robertson
12
Textile Imports and Cotton Trade Legislation
Daniel K. Frierson
14
The Tom and Stephanie Show: Growth and Development of the Cotton Plant (Where the Money Is)
Thomas A. Kerby and Stephanie Johnson
15
Importance and Use of Seed Quality Measurements
Sonny Baskin
18
The Mississippi Plan for Providing Cool Test Results
Clyde Jones
19
Educational Activities and Research Support for a Cotton Planting Seed Quality Program
C.C. Baskin
20
Selection of Varieties, Row Spacings and Plant Populations for Earliness
Thomas A. Burch
20
Effects of Herbicides and Other Soil-Applied Pesticides on Earliness: Enhancement, Retardation and Phytotoxicity
C.M. Bonner
23
Impact of Starter Fertilizers
Eddie R. Funderburg
25
Using Plant Growth Regulators for Earliness
David S. Guthrie
27
Insect Control for Earliness: Strategy and Basis
Mitchell E. Roof
28
Insect Control for Earliness a Producer's Viewpoint
Jimmy Hargett
30
Drip Irrigation: Lowering Installation Costs, Increasing Yields and Improving Water-Use Efficiency
Joe C. Henggeler
31
Low Energy Precision Application (LEPA) and Multifunction Irrigation Systems
William M. Lyle
32
A Beltwide Look at Conservation Tillage for Cotton
J.T. Touchton and D.W. Reeves
36
My Experience with Conservation Tillage
Burke Slaughter
41
Pyrethroid Resistance in Heliothis: a World Perspective
G.J.Jackson
42
Pyrethroid Resistance in Heliothis Virescens and Resistance Management: U.S. Perspective
Steven L. Riley
45
Markets for Cottonseed Products: Their Values and the Competition
Allen Ater
48
Promoting Cottonseed Products
Thomas Greer
50
Marketing Whole Cottonseed to the Feed Industry
Robert W. Greene
52
The Cotton Classing System of the 1990's
Jesse Moore
53
Highlights of the Special Session on HVI Measurements of Cotton Fiber Quality
Charles K. Bragg
54
Influence of Light Spotted Cotton on Textile Processing
Preston E. Sasser
55
Production, Harvesting, and Ginning to Preserve Color and Grade
J.R. Williford, W.R. Meredith, Jr., and W.S. Anthony
60
Cotton Mechanization Research: A Look at Present Technology and Future Developments
Lambert H. Wilkes
62
Cotton Research Priorities: A Report from the Focus on Research Task Force
Michael A. Jackson and Marilyn K. Holschuh
63
Insect Control for Earliness: A Private Consultant's Viewpoint
Paul S. Clark
Immigration Reform and Employment in the Cotton Industry
Elizabeth D. Whieley


SPECIAL SESSION: NEW DEVELOPMENTS FROM INDUSTRY

Counter Systemic Insecticide-Nematicide Use in Cotton
R.A. Farlow and G.R. Zummo
88
DPX-T9595: A New Selective Postemergence Broadleaf Herbicide for Cotton
S.D. Strachan, A.J. Parsells, J.D. Long, T.R. Dean, and V.A. Wittenbach
90
Release of Stoneville 453
Lynn D. McDonald
90
Actagro® Bio-Stimulants Produce First Replicated Yield Responses to Humic Substances
Clyde Irion, James R. Brownell, V.T. Walhood, John Corkins, Jack Corkins, and Gary Jorgensen
91
The Design and Development of the New Family of Case IH Diesel Engines
John Strangberg
92
Karate 1E: Results of Cotton Heliothis Spp. And Boll Weevil Studies Across the Cotton Belt
Steve Fennimore, Benjamin Rogers and Doug Anderson
94
Holland 1379 and Holland 4002: Two New Cotton Varieties from Holland Cottonseed
David L. Bush
95
9100 Series Fargo Built Tractors
Kelly Kravig
96
Automatic Strapping and the Controlled Slip Joint
L.J. Mateus
100
Foliar Triggrr® and Soil Triggrr®, New Plant Growth Regulators to Increase Cotton Yields
Lawrence W. Parker and Peter L. Salk
101
Microp®: A Microscopic Cover Crop Effects on Upper Delta Cotton Yields and Soil Compaction
Jim Schaefer
104

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