UT Extension is hosting a series of meetings to be held throughout the state to prepare growers for the upcoming season. These meetings will focus on variety selection, insect and plant disease management, weed management, and other current crop production topics.
Below is a list of the production meetings to be held in January. Please contact your local UT Extension office for more details on time and location. Continue reading
Ryan Blair, County Variety Testing Coordinator
The 2016 TN Cotton Variety Trial Results Publication (PB1742) is now available online. This document contains detailed results from all harvested trails in the 2016 University of Tennessee Cotton Variety Testing Program. Continue reading
The 2017 TN Cotton Variety Guide is now available 
online. This document summarizes results from the 2016 University of Tennessee Cotton Agronomy program and serves as a precursor to a full release of trial results in PB 1742 to come within the next few days. Summary tables from the 2016 season were calculated from five Official Variety Trials (OVTs), four large, replicated on-farm trials and fifteen County Standard Trials (CSTs) scattered throughout TN’s cotton producing counties. To access the document click the adjacent image or the hyperlinks above or below.
Special thanks to all those who participated and/or contributed to the program during the 2016 growing season. See more here: W285
By Tyson Raper and Ryan Blair
The University of Tennessee Cotton Agronomy Program provides an unbiased evaluation of experimental and commercial varieties available for production in Tennessee each year. The 2016 program consisted of Continue reading
Now available online (and just-in-time to start planting wheat after our fly-free date of Oct 15th), the 2016 Tennessee Wheat Quick Facts Publication (W 321) is designed to be a single page (printed front/back) summary of the most pertinent information in wheat production stemming from University of TN research. Continue reading
We have been blessed with another great harvest season and it appears we may be able to finish harvest with little rain. Here on the 5th day of Oct, I would guess the average cotton acre within the state has already received the first application of harvest aids and is very close to seeing a picker. Even so, several acres have not been defoliated. This has led many to call with concerns about the cooler temperatures in the forecast over the weekend and several have asked if it is simply time to defoliate based on calendar date. Continue reading
With the exception of a few rainy days, we have had a very nice window for defoliation. Unfortunately, the forecast for the beginning of this week (9/26-10/1) includes night temperatures in the low 50s and high 40s with daytime temperatures below 80F. As night temperatures drop from 65F to 50F, remember that plant responses to defoliants and boll openers slow to a crawl; applications which seemingly blew bolls open within a day or two will now take much longer to work and some products will have almost no impact on boll opening or defoliation. Rates of defoliants and boll openers will have to be increased to compensate for the reduction in product efficacy noted at lower temperatures. For those contemplating a first or second shot this week there are several key points to keep in mind. Continue reading
A defoliation strip trial was applied in Flintville, TN (Lincoln County) this afternoon (September 16th). A treatment list can be found by clicking here. There are three untreated rows on both sides of the trial. Each treatment is 5 rows wide and signs have been placed in the center of each treatment (row 3).
