2023 West Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference will be Thursday, February 2nd, at the Dyer County Fairgrounds, located at 296 James H. Rice Rd, Dyersburg, TN 38024.

West Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference will offer some of the most practical insights and real-life solutions to emerging crop production issues; utilizing research and evidence-based data from the University of Tennessee and other land-grant colleges. This conference is also home to one of the area’s largest trade shows, showcasing dozens of industry professionals who are on hand to talk what’s new, efficient, and effective.

Conference registration and trade show will begin at 7:45 a.m. The first educational sessions will begin at 9:00 a.m. and conclude at lunch. Educational break-out sessions this year will focus on Industry updates, how to overcome farm labor hurdles, agricultural trade, alternative fertilizers, weed control, and grain storage economics.

Once again, this years conference is supported and made possible by several industry partners including the TN Soybean Promotion Board and the TN Corn Promotion Board.

After lunch, Private Applicator Recertification training will be done. Cost of this recertification training is $25 per person to be paid on-site prior to the training. Current Tennessee Private Applicator certifications expire on June 30, 2023.
Master Row Crop, CCA, and Commercial Applicator points will be available for those in attendance.

The West Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference is open to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability or veteran status. Through its mission of research, teaching and extension, the University of Tennessee
Institute of Agriculture touches lives and provides Real. Life. Solutions. ag.tennessee.edu

For more information or to sponsor this year’s West Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference please contact Lindsay Stephenson, UT Extension, Haywood County, 731.772.2861, or email LSS@utk.edu.
To pre-register, see the agenda, or for sponsorship information please visit https://conference.utcrops.com/  or scan the barcode below.

The 2022 Tennessee Cotton Variety Trial Results Publication (PB 1742) is now available online.  Included within these results are ten large strip trials (CSTs) testing 13 XtendFlex commercial varieties, four large strip trials (CSTs) testing 6 Enlist commercial varieties, and six small plot trials (OVTs) testing 40 experimental and commercial varieties.

Special thanks to all of the agents and producers who helped generate this data.  Additionally, thanks to the USDA Classing Office in Memphis for assisting with this effort.  If you have any questions on location response or variety placement, please do not hesitate to reach out directly to your county agent.

The unusually dry soil conditions during most part of the growing season this year limited nitrogen (N) uptake and lessened the potential for N loss through denitrification or leaching. Intuitively, the unused N, which would be in the nitrate form may remain in the soil. However, since August, there has been considerable amounts (more than 12 inches) of rainfall which can affect the availability of nitrate-N. This has raised questions about how much nitrate-N would be available in the soil after drought and late season rainfall? Continue reading →

We have finished ginning all collected Official Variety Trial samples and I expect to have the remaining fiber quality data back from the USDA Classing Office in Memphis any minute now.  We are on track to have the complete results from both the Official Variety Trials and the County Standard Trials weeks earlier than normal.  Still, I wanted to share some of the preliminary results with you now. Continue reading →

Results from the 2022 TN corn grain hybrid trials are now available as both pdf and excel files. Sixty hybrids were evaluated in small plot replicated trials (REC) at eight locations and fifty-one hybrids were evaluated as non-replicated large strip plots (CST) in thirteen to seventeen locations.  A summary of hybrids that were in the “A group” (not statistically different from the top yield within each test) in either the REC or CST trial can be found here – 2022 corn A table.

Yield data from our County Standardized Corn Trials are in.  With extended drought and heat, much of our corn was stressed and decreased yields were common. While we did experienced areas of low yields, having a high number of locations serving as replications allows for a high confidence level statistically.

These CST plots are large strip trials located ‘on-farm’ with a minimum of 300 feet in length.  Inputs and management decisions are on a by location basis and determined by the cooperating producers.  Three relative maturity groups divide the trials, Early Corn will be 113 day and earlier, Medium Corn will be 114-116 day, and Full Corn is 117 day plus.

Below are the results for our 3 RM groups.  Click on the table to open a PDF of these tables.  These results can also be accessed on https://search.utcrops.com/

Thank you to everyone involved in making this program happen.  It wouldn’t be possible without all the County Agents, Cooperating Producers, Seed Industry Representatives, and others involved.