Calcium foundation
Pro-Cal lifts pH and Ca base sat. Cotton sets earlier on balanced soils.
AgriTec System · Specialty
Cotton.
Earlier set. Heavier bolls. Cleaner pick.
Cotton responds dramatically to calcium correction and boron. Most cotton ground in the South sits below 6.0 pH with Ca base saturation under 60%, and boron under 0.5 ppm cuts boll set before harvest. Our cotton program addresses the foundation first, then drives boll fill with foliar B.
02 / The growth plan
From emergence to harvest: one plan, stage by stage.
The whole cotton season up top, then the general program below. Every pass is shown at the exact stage it targets, so the picture and the plan line up.
Read this first
This is a general roadmap, not an exact prescription for your farm. No two fields, soil tests, planting dates, or seasons line up the same way, so your stages, rates, and timing will differ. Treat the timeline below as the shape of the program; we size the exact stack and pin every pass to your soil test and your acres.
The plan, pass by pass, pinned to the stage it works
Each pass has a window. Hit it and it pays; miss it and the dollar's mostly spent. Tap a pass to see what it returns.
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Pre-plant Pre-plantPro-Cal
3–5 gal/ac
pH + Ca foundation.
What this pass returns
The highest-return pass on Southern cotton ground. Most of it sits below 6.0 pH with calcium base under 60%. Fix that and cotton sets earlier on balanced soil, so the whole crop finishes ahead of a late, stressed one. Everything downstream rides on this foundation.
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Planting · Squaring At planting3-18-18+
5 gal/ac
Orthophosphate P-K for early root + square set.
What this pass returns
Early root and square set decide the boll count you'll eventually pick. Available P-K in the root zone from day one is a small pass that quietly raises the season's ceiling before the plant ever blooms.
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Pre-bloom Pre-bloomNitro-Maxx+
6 gal/ac
Sustained N for the long demand curve.
What this pass returns
Slow-release N feeds cotton's long demand curve without over-pushing rank vegetative growth. You get fruit, not just foliage, and far less N lost to leaching on sandy Southern ground.
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Bloom · Boll set Bloom · foliarBoroLift
1 gal/ac
Defends square retention and boll set.
What this pass returns
The pass that pays the loudest. Boron under 0.5 ppm cuts boll set before you ever see it. A gallon of foliar B at flowering defends square retention and the bolls that become your check. In AgriCenter cotton work the full program ran ~350 lb lint/ac over the control.
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Cut-out Cut-out · foliarYieldMaker
1 qt/ac
Drives finish: kelp + micronutrient trigger.
What this pass returns
Finishing pays at the gin. Kelp and micronutrients through cut-out drive the last increment of fill and fiber quality, often the difference between an average crop and a premium grade.
What's driving the response
Boron for boll set
Boron defends square retention and boll set. BoroLift at flowering is critical.
Slow-release N
Nitro-Maxx+ matches cotton's long demand curve without overpushing vegetative growth.
Foliar finish
YieldMaker keeps the plant healthy through bloom and cut-out.
That's the general cotton program
Your fields aren't general. Build yours from your soil test.
Upload your soil test (or key in the numbers) and we'll read every value on it — then build a Good / Better / Best program sized to your acres, with real delivered cost and the break-even ROI. The agronomy is free.
03 / The trial data
We can defend every line.
Detailed cotton trial methodology in Cotton Production Catalog 2024-2025.
AgriCenter International · 2023
lb lint/ac
1100
Control
1450
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Full program
Personalize the program · Cotton
Tell us what you want to grow. We'll do the math.
Set your yield target and drop in your soil test values. Or upload the lab PDF and we'll read it for you. The engine returns a program scaled to your fields.
Your Cotton program · 1300 lb lint/ac
Engine ready
Adjust the yield target and add any soil test values you have. The recommendation engine will return a cotton program scaled to your fields and pinned to specific soil numbers when present.
Farming more than one field? Build every field's program on the calculator →Final rates and pricing confirmed by an AgriTec agronomist after reviewing your soil test. The advice is free.
Talk to an agronomist
Send us your cotton soil test. We'll read it.
Real agronomists. No call tree. No charge for the conversation. Same program your neighbor is running on his cotton, tuned to your fields.