Assess cotton yield loss from boll weevil damage with yield monitoring
| Problem: | The heavy use of insecticides for suppression of boll weevils in cotton is expensive and creates environmental problems. Improvements may be possible by spraying selected sites of cotton fields depending on boll weevil colonization. There is contradictory information about boll weevils distribution in the fields. However, colonization patterns have not been experimentally demonstrated. |
| Objective: | Obtain yield variation maps based on boll weevil density and cotton damage |
| Approach: | Cotton yield data will be collected using a yield monitor during harvest from the same sites of the field which was under observation during the cotton 2003 growing season |
Sasha M. Greenburg