On behalf of UTIA and TSU, the West Tennessee Grain Conference Planning Committee invites you to attend the annual West Tennessee Grain and Soybean Producers Conference.
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An issue was found that caused an error when importing variety names in the previously published final version of the soybean report. This has been corrected and updated in the previous post. If you already downloaded the files from 11/25, please discard and used the updated versions below.
TN Soybean OVT Final Report – pdf and excel
The final reports for both the TN corn and soybean variety trials are now available! These will be posted within the next few days on search.utcrops.com and can also be found at the links below. As always, thank you to our industry partners for their participation in submitting varieties for evaluation and to the TN Soybean Promotion Board and TN Corn Promotion Board for their support of these trials.
Corn report pdf and excel files.
UT Extension, in partnership with the Southern Extension Risk Management Education Program, Mid-America Farm Credit, UT Martin, and Simmons Bank, will be hosting two events December 1st. Topics covered will include:
The first event will be hosted at 435 University Street in Martin, TN from 8AM-11AM December 1st. Breakfast will be provided.
The second event will be hosted at 605 Airways Blvd in Jackson, TN from 5PM-8PM December 1st. Dinner will be provided.
Registration links for both events are included above. Looking forward to seeing each of you there.
We recently rated our Italian ryegrass screen in the greenhouse for glyphosate and clethodim resistance. The first two runs were conducted on 13 populations across 11 counties in West Tennessee. Continue reading
Our 2025 TN Corn Official Variety Trial (OVT) results are now available. These data are from our small plot trials performed at eight sites located within six of our UT AgResearch and Education Centers across the state (Jackson, Milan, Spring Hill, Springfield, Knoxville, and Greeneville).
This year, we had 40 hybrids, representing 11 brands/companies, included in the OVT. Our top performers (those not statistically different from the highest yielding hybrid within each test) are listed in the 2025 OVT Corn “A Group” Table below. The full results, including information on yield, moisture, test weight, plant and ear height, lodging, protein, oil, and starch for each hybrid within and across locations is available as an excel file download – Corn Grain Tables 2025 PRELIM – OVT ONLY.
County trial data is not included in this PRELIM report as that data is still coming in. It will be included in the FINAL report. Continue reading
We are close to the end but a few still have acres left to defoliate. Others are considering applying another application to remove small amounts of leaf. Generally, most all of the harvestable bolls are open. Yields are off, in many areas considerably more than expected. At this point, we need to consider what we have in the field and what we might gain from another defoliation application. Most acres loosely break out to either 1,000+ lb per acre or far less than 1,000 lb per acre. The approach on these fields should generally be different. In this blog, I make a few comments and give a couple of examples of the best approach to wrap up 2025.
Defoliating the 2025 crop just became more difficult. While you wait for your fields to dry, I’ve got a document that I believe may come in handy over the next few weeks. Each year, the MidSouth Cotton Specialists’ Working Group generate a defoliation guide. This document is a collaborative effort between Dr. Bradley Wilson (Missouri), Mr. Tyler Sandlin and Dr. Joshua Lee (Alabama), Dr. Brian Pieralisi (Mississippi), Dr. Shelly Kerns (Louisiana), and Dr. Zachary Treadway (Arkansas).
The 2025 document is just short of a complete rewrite and is worth your time to peruse. I’m particularly proud of the breakdown of the factors which influence plant response to product and rate along with the decision matrix and the streamlined program product selection guide. Special thanks to each of the authors for their time on this revision!
