The 2025 Tennessee Cotton Variety Trial Results (PB 1742) publication is now available online.  Included within these results are fourteen large strip trials (CSTs) 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.

Below you will find three average tables from the 2025 University of Tennessee Cotton Variety Testing Program.  The first link contains the averages from the 40 entries planted at six official variety trial locations.  The second link consists of two tables, the first table containing the averages from 13 XtendFlex varieties planted at eleven county standard trial locations and the second table contains averages from 6 Enlist varieties planted at seven county standard trial locations.  Special thanks to the USDA-AMS Quality Assurance Office in Memphis- I received the last of the quality data from their office this past Saturday.  These average tables are a precursor to the complete report, which will likely be complete later this week.  Continue reading →

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.

Soybean report pdf and excel

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:

• Vendor financing
• Debt carryover
• Consolidation loans
• Share and cash rental agreements
• Machinery costs and value
• Seed fertilizer and chemical costs
• Preparing financial statements
• Selecting crop insurance coverage
• Effective grain marketing and storage.

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.

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 →