COTTON SEMINAR

PORTAGEVILLE -- A Cotton Physiology Seminar will be held at the University of Missouri Delta Center here July 16.

"Physiology is one of the last frontiers as far as our knowledge of cotton is concerned," said Dr. Kater Hake, manager of the National Cotton Council's Cottony Physiology Education Program. "We'll be talking about the physiological effect of water stress on cotton, and the physiological causes of square shedding."

The meeting will open at 8:30 a.m. at the Delta center, located south of Portageville on Highway 61. Participants will board trailers in the parking lot for a ride to the field at 9 a.m.

Hake, Dave Albers, cotton management specialist at the Delta Center; Van Ayers, agriculture engineering specialist at the center; Dale Klobe, agronomy specialist in New Madrid County; and Ray Nabors, area entomologist in Pemiscot County, are among speakers for the day's program.