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Ready Flex Round target in progress says CSD

18 Jan '06

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Bill O'Neill a Farm Manager on a cotton farm in the Mississippi the Alandale Planting Company (5500 acres of 95 per cent Bollgard II cotton), said Roundup Ready Flex this season is going great.

“It's really performing well for us. We are not restricted as to when we can make our overhead applications of Roundup here with the conventional Roundup Ready and stack gene Roundup Ready cotton. We have to spray prior to the 5th leaf. In other words we stop prior to the 5th leaf and now we can go overhead full season long.

“Certainly we will look at how the cotton yields and how it yields compared to the varieties that we are planting now and look at that, and of course look at the economics of it as far as the cost of the technology fee and that kind of thing. But with all things considered, I am hoping to have more acres of Flex next year,” Bill O'Neal said.

CSD extension and development agronomist, Craig McDonald, who recorded the Web on Wednesday video on a visit to the US, said Monsanto has organized a series of field days and field walks this week to familiarize growers with progress with RRF in Australia. Details are listed on the front page of the CSD website.

Nation's cotton seed and its information supplier CSD aspire is to provide to every cotton grower the highest net return potential from the cotton varieties CSD produces.

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