Crop Protection and Tillage – Focusing Management to Build Sustainable Cotton Systems

As cotton producers examine ways to reduce costs and increase use of their on-farm mechanization and technology investments, they may consider increasing use of preventative approaches for pest control to reduce the management intensive practices of scouting and crop monitoring. The Arkansas Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach endorses scouting and spraying pesticides only when needed. In this report, we summarize results from the first 2 years of a planned 3-year study comparing crop protection practices across different tillage systems.