This publication discusses soil fertility practices that meet organic certification standards, weed management, and insect management including strategies for cutworm, cotton bollworm, tobacco budworm, pink boll- worm, armyworm, loopers, thrips, fleahoppers, lygus bugs, aphids, whitefly, spider mite, and boll weevil. Seedling disease, soil disease, foliar disease management and pre-harvest defoliation are also discussed. The publication concludes with sections on marketing organic cotton and the economics and profitability of organic cotton production. ATTRA Current Topic guide.

This ATTRA resource list is intended as a guide for farmers and gardeners to use in identifying specialty suppliers in the United States and bordering countries. Sources are categorized by product type and are based on the compilers’ current knowledge of the range of materials available in the marketplace and the specific product offerings of each company listed.