Mark your calendars for the annual UT Cotton Focus meeting that is scheduled for Thursday, February 13th at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson. Program highlights are below. Pre-registration is not required and there is no registration fee. CEUs are available for Pesticide Applicators and Certified Crop Advisors. Continue reading
Results of the 2013 Soybean Variety Performance Tests in Tennessee have been posted at www.UTcrops.com.
The 2014 Insect Control Recommendations for Field Crops (PB 1768) is now available online. Hard copies of this publication are not yet available.
The link below will take you to the 2013 corn hybrid trial data for Tennessee. This publication is also available on www.utcrops.com.
2013 Corn Grain Hybrid Tests in Tennessee
Syngenta has recently confirmed the presence of resistance to thiamethoxam in populations of tobacco thrips collected from the Mid South. Thiamethoxam is the active ingredient used for thrips control on cotton seed treated with Cruiser, Cruiser Avicta, and Acceleron N. It is also the active ingredient used as Cruiser in soybean and corn. This discovery comes as no surprise in Tennessee as thrips control failures on Cruiser treated cotton seed have become more and more common during the past few years. Continue reading
State offices of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) have established application deadlines for the 2014 Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Deadlines for your state are Continue reading
The late harvest of most crops is also making for a late planted wheat crop. This has several potential implications related to insect control. Continue reading
Today, I found the kudzu bug in Lauderdale County, Tennessee. Yesterday, its presence was confirmed at several locations in McNairy County. I think these finds brings us to a total of 34 Tennessee counties that Continue reading
The USDA Agriculture Marketing Service recently released their 2013 cotton varieties planted report. The full report can be found here. As can be seen in the table below, the top six varieties Continue reading