Spring time is finally here and it is time to consider terminating winter-annual cover crops. Many people have been questioning the timing of cover crop termination. Much of West Tennessee has encountered a cool and wet spring, which has limited the biomass accumulated by the cover crops when compared to the last several warmer winter/springs. So do we delay cover crop termination to get more growth or wait? Continue reading
It is getting late early with respect to burndown. With the long, cold, snowy February and March there was very little opportunity to get early burndowns applied. The planting season is now here and a large majority of the burndowns have yet to be applied. Continue reading
There has been more metribuzin injury on wheat stands this year than we have seen in more than a decade. This has been very evident in research trials as well as walking some grower’s wheat fields. Continue reading
What are some good options to control ryegrass with a short turn around to plant back to corn? Continue reading
Apparently there has been a little corn planted in West Tennessee this week. I for one believe in early planted corn and am hoping the weather next week cooperates to where we can plant the bulk of the corn in early April. With corn planting in mind, I keep seeing an advertisement on TV about one-pass programs providing season-long weed control. This advertisement might be true in some places but not in our neck of the woods. Continue reading
There really has not been anything “new” in grain sorghum herbicides to talk about for years. Basically it all started and ended with Bicep. In recent years that has changed and there are several new herbicides for grain sorghum. Continue reading
It finally looks like this long winter is coming to a close. We will likely start putting out burndown applications this week. We are well behind the burndown pace of most Tennessee springs where at least some would have burndown applications applied by this time. However, this was not a typical winter and as such we are not behind with respect to weed maturity. Continue reading
Tennessee just received a Section 18 label (Brake F2 Label) for the use of Brake F2 (fluridone + fomesafen) for control of glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth in cotton. Continue reading