The 2015 TN Cotton Variety Guide is now available online. This document summarizes results from the 2014 University of Tennessee Cotton Variety Testing program and serves as a precursor to a full release of trial results in PB 1742 to come within the next few weeks. Continue reading
With our fly-free date of October 15th just around the corner, several of us are beginning to think about wheat planting. As we enter this wheat season, I hope you will find utility in our hot-off-the-press 2014 Tennessee Wheat Quick Facts Publication (W 321)which is now available online. This document is Continue reading
Ms. Lindsay Griffin and I will be walking the Hardeman County Defoliation Trial at 7:30 AM this Thursday (10/9/2014) at the corner of 15 and 64 in Whiteville, TN. This trial received a stout single-shot rate of defoliant last Monday (9/29). Treatment descriptions can be found below. Continue reading
There comes a point late in the season where defoliation timing begins to lean more heavily on the forecast and historical temperature normals associated with the current date than our maturity measurements (NACBs, %open, uppermost harvestable boll maturity as determined by the sharp-knife technique, etc.). In West Tennessee, I would argue that we are very rapidly approaching that time frame. The 5 day forecast here on the 28th day of Sept. for West TN indicates the next few days appear to be very favorable Continue reading
We have put out two strip trials in the past week and will be putting out several more in the weeks to come. For those interested in taking a look at how a few of these products are working now, I wanted to pass along coordinates and treatment descriptions. I will be updating this post as more trials go out.
Dr. Mike Buschermohle and Lori Duncan with the University of Tennessee have just released a new Focus On Cotton webinar covering the topic of cotton yield monitoring from the Deere platform. This timely, very informative release was accompanied by another webinar by Dr. Pedro Andradé-Sanchez with the University of Arizona covering cotton yield monitoring from the Case-IH platform (links below). As we inch closer to this harvest season I would encourage you to visit the Focus on Cotton website and watch these videos. Continue reading
Cooler temperatures have arrived in West TN. Luckily, much of our cotton crop has made up a tremendous amount of lost ground over the past month and several fields will have received their first shot of defoliant by the end of next week. With this less-than-desirable forecast and generally late crop, I would again encourage you to know your crop, know your environment/forecast, and use this information to guide your product selection and timing. Continue reading
We’ve got some really nice differences between varieties showing up in the County Standard Test Demonstration located here on the West Tennessee Research and Education Center (605 Airways Blvd., Jackson, TN 38301). I would encourage anyone interested in a side-by-side comparison of varieties to take a look at these strip-plots. This demonstration is located immediately adjacent to the station’s front entrance on the right. Coordinates for the southwest corner are lat 35.618224°, lon -88.846448°. Variety signs are located in the 2nd row of each 4 row plot.