Farming kept getting more and more technical. New chemicals, were coming out each year. In about 1992, a new chemical came on the market that would kill the most feared weed on the farm, the Morning Glory. This new chemical was used with another chemical under the cotton seed. We were told it would keep the herbicide from killing the cotton.
Herbicides kill mainly broadleaf weeds and grass.
The new chemicals were broadleaf killers. The chemical you had to put out under the seed was an insect killer, but would, for some reason, keep the broadleaf chemical from killing the cotton. Now the companies educating their dealers more about the dangers of using chemicals. The chemical that you out under the cotton was an organophosphate, which was a very dangerous chemical. After studying this new technology, I decided to use it in liquid form.