Growth and Yield Response of Cotton (Gossypium Hirsutum, L.) to Ultra Narrow Row Spacing in North Carolina PDF Download

Author: Noel Mary Cawley
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Abstract HAMM, GARY STEPHEN. Agronomics of Cotton Grown on a 38-cm Row Spacing in North Carolina (Under the direction of Dr. Keith Edmisten). Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) planted in a 38-cm row configuration is an innovative idea that has come about in the past few years. There has been some interest in narrow-row cotton due to the availability of a new harvester capable of harvesting cotton on 38-cm rows. Producers have raised questions regarding changing their cotton production strategies in order to maximize yield potential for cotton grown on 38-cm rows. Agronomic practices that allow for maximum yield potential have yet to be determined for narrow-row cotton. Four separate field experiments were conducted in 2005, 2006 and 2007 at Upper Coastal Plains Research Station, near Rocky Mount, NC, Central Crops Research Station, Clayton, NC, and Duplin County, NC in order to define these agronomic practices. Cotton was planted on 38-cm row spacings using a vacuum planter. One experiment was conducted to observe the effects of seven nitrogen rates ranging from 0-196 kg N ha-1 on yield potential, plant uptake of nitrogen, growth habits, fiber quality, and economic returns of narrow-row cotton. The second experiment was conducted to look at the effects of fourteen different application methods on plant height control, yield, and fiber quality. The strategies consisted of making applications to narrow-row cotton at certain growth stages with different rates of mepiquat pentaborate. The third experiment consisted of making a herbicidal defoliation application to narrow-cotton at six different percent open boll stages ranging from 0-100 % open bolls to determine yield and fiber quality parameters. The fourth experiment was conducted to determine if narrow-row cotton could be planted in a double crop situation with wheat which is an uncommon practice in NC. For this experiment, narrow-row cotton was planted in comparison with wide-row cotton for yield and economic potential a.

Author: David Guadalupe Reta-Sanchez
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Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1086

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Author: Noell Kent Rogers
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Ernest Leslie Clawson
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Ultra-narrow row (UNR) cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) is a production system using high plant populations in reduced row spacings. The responses of this production system to nitrogen fertilizer have not been fully investigated. Evaluations of yield and earliness of harvest are also important. A three-year study was conducted at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station farm, Burleson County, TX, on a Ships clay (very-fine, mixed, active, thermic Chromic Hapluderts) and a Weswood silty clay loam (fine-silty, mixed, superactive, thermic Udifluventic Haplustepts). A split plot design was used. Nitrogen fertilizer rates of 0, 50, 101, and 151 kg N ha−1 were applied as the whole plots and row spacings of 19, 38, and 76 cm were established as the split plots. Data included lint yield and yield components, as well as earliness of crop maturity and earliness-related parameters such as boll distribution. Lint yield was increased by higher nitrogen rate. There was no nitrogen rate by row spacing interaction on lint yield, implying fertilizer rates do not need to be changed for UNR systems. Reductions in row spacing did not significantly affect lint yield in any year. Responses such as reduced bolls per plant, increased plant populations, increased ginout, and decreased boll size were often significant and combined to allow the crop to maintain equivalent yields as row spacings were reduced. The slight UNR earliness advantages were probably due to changes in boll distribution. Based on these results, increases in lint yield and earliness may not reliably contribute to the profitability of UNR cotton.

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Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) can be a difficult crop to manage due to the intermediate growth habits, tropical origins, and perennial nature. Because cotton is produced as an annual in North Carolina, it is highly important to promote maximum early season growth, stimulate early flowering, and at the same time prevent excessive vegetative growth, all which are important to harvest quality cotton. The use of several management practices may be applied to promote earliness, and achieve high yields. While environmental conditions can generally not be controlled, they can be altered thorough tillage methods, plant growth regulator use, and desirable fertilization programs, to manipulate cotton vegetative and reproductive growth to promote high yields. Three studies were conducted to observe fertilization strategies for cotton production in North Carolina. One study was conducted in North Carolina and Virginia during 2005 and 2006 to determine effects of increased N fertilization rates and increased plant growth regulator rates on a modern cultivar. The second study were conducted in North Carolina in 2006 and 2007 to observe the effects of effects of starter fertilizer in conventional, stripÃØâ'ƠÂ till (ST) and noÃØâ'ƠÂ till (NT) systems on growth, quality and yield of cotton. The third study was conducted in North Carolina in 2006 and 2007 to determine optimal N placement methods in stripÃØâ'ƠÂ till (ST) and noÃØâ'ƠÂ till (NT) systems based on growth, fiber quality, and yield of cotton. Data from the first study showed that N rate affected yield in Virginia in both years and in North Carolina during 2006. However, in 2005 N did not affect yield. In North Carolina 2006 the response to N was quadratic, while in the Virginia locations the response to N was linear, however, further increase in N above 112 kg N haÃØâ'ƠÂ 1 was not significant. Overall the use of a plant growth regulator did not alter the optimum N rate. For the second starter fertilizer did not have.

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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 1080

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Author: Jonathan Mark Rinehardt
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Gary Stephen Hamm
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Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Keywords: planting date, double crop, defoliation, plant growth regulator, nitrogen, 38-cm, cotton, narrow-row.