Early pickings herald promising start to CQ cotton harvest

With triple-stacked herbicide tolerance traits in genetically modified cotton expected to be available to Australia within five years, research suggests that using more diverse strategies in weed control can add 20 years to the effective ‘life’ of this new herbicide tolerance technology.

China’s State Reserve (SR) stocks of cotton, which reached an estimated 60 million bales in the spring of 2014, are currently estimated at just under 13 million bales, according to the latest report from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).