Wondering what’s been making your soybeans sickly? Come to The University of Tennessee Soybean Disease Field Day, held Tuesday, Sept. 4th, at the Milan Research and Education Center. Registration will be from 8:30-9:00 AM with the tour beginning at 9 AM and concluding with a box lunch. Preregistration is not required. Pesticide re-certification and CCA points will be available. Field demonstrations will include soybean disease identification, UT variety trials, fungicide efficacy trials and other UT disease research trials. Hands on disease identification will cover main soybean diseases that occur in Tennessee including frogeye leaf spot, target spot, Cercospora leaf blight, southern stem canker, sudden death syndrome, and others.
All posts by Heather Marie Kelly, Extension Plant Pathologist
Soybean diseases, fungicides, and soil sampling
Most soybeans have gotten into reproductive growth stages and diseases may have started appearing although at low levels. To better identify diseases and guide management decisions use the resources below… Continue reading
Relatively low disease in Tennessee corn
With no reports of southern rust in Tennessee or to the south, it is a relatively quiet disease season in corn, with the exception of grey leaf spot and physioderm brown spot in Tennessee corn. Continue reading
Wheat Disease Update
Walking field fields in Tennessee, one might find some diseases including stripe rust, leaf rust, and head scab (fusarium head blight).
Wheat Disease Update
Wheat is blooming and considerations about fungicide applications are being made. Continue reading
Prevent Scabby Heads – Forecast for Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat
The wet weather we’ve been having is likely increasing Fusarium spores (inoculum) that can infect the wheat crop that is starting to head in most areas and develop into Fusarium Head Blight (FHB) or Head Scab. Continue reading
Stripe Rust Reported in Wheat
As wheat progresses to flag leaf growth stage, the first reports of stripe rust in Western Tennessee have come in.
2018 Tennessee Grain Conferences – Presentations
Below are links to the presentations given at the 2018 Tennessee Grain Conferences and they can also be found at http://utcrops.com/presentations.htm.
2018 Tennessee Grain Conferences
- Soybean Diseases, Dr. Heather Kelly
- No-till Planting into Cover Crops: Opportunities and Obstacles, Dr. Angela McClure
- Implications of Cover Crops for Crop and Insect Management… the good, the bad, and the ugly, Dr. Scott Stewart
- Cover Crops in Tennessee, Mrs. Lori Duncan
- Soybean, Corn, & Wheat Outlook, Dr. Aaron Smith
- Fungicides: Efficacy and Economics, Dr. Heather Kelly and Mr. Danny Morris
- Seed Protection and Emerging IPM Issues, Dr. Scott Stewart
- Farming on the Go – Apps in Ag, Mrs. Lori Duncan
- Removing Herbicide Residues from Ag. Application Equip. & Sprayers on County Roads, Dr. Fred Whitford
- Lab Update with Soil Sampling and Results Interpretation, Dr. Robert Florence
- Mississippi River and Tributaries Project, Colonel Michael Ellicott
- Being an Advocate for Ag: Role of Millennials, Mr. Greg Peterson