Independent Crop Consultants' Cotton Insect Survey, 2005

Answers, such as Totals and Averages are listed in BOLD.
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1. On how much cotton acreage did your firm provide insect-related advice in 2004?  Total = 231,361 acres

Early Season Insects: What % of your total acreage:

2. Received Temik at planting? 72.0%
3. Received a foliar application(s) for thrips?  72.1% 
4. Received a treatment(s) for aphids?     7.1%
5. Received a treatment(s) for spider mites?    2.9%
6. Received an early (pre-bloom) treatment(s) for plant bugs?   7.2%
7. Was treated prior to bloom for Stink Bugs? 5.6%

Bollworm Management & Bt Cotton:

8. Planted to BG-II or WideStrike? 2.1%
9. What % of your total cotton acreage was planted to Bt cotton (please include stacked cotton)?    88.4 %

10. Of the Bt acreage, what % was...

Untreated? % 9.7 %
Treated 1 time? % 61.3 %
Treated 2 times? % 27.6 %
Treated 3 times? % 1.4 %
For an Average of 1.21 times.

11. Of your Bt acreage, what % was treated Stink bugs ? 54.5 %
Of your Conventional acreage, what % was treated Stink bugs ? 21.3 %

12. On your conventional cotton, what was the average number of treatments for late season insects
(this year, primarily from the major bollworm moth flight, and perhaps bug pests)?

Average # of treatments ; 2.3
Range: From (1) ; To (4)