Mark your calendars for the annual UT Cotton Focus meeting that is scheduled for Thursday, February 13th at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson. Program highlights are below. Pre-registration is not required and there is no registration fee. CEUs are available for Pesticide Applicators and Certified Crop Advisors. Continue reading
The 2013 harvest season is done. There may be a few producers who are still working on getting the last acres out. For grains on the average, 2013 has been a record year in Tennessee. Continue reading
Dr. Jason Fewell has posted the latest Farm Management Minute and it can be found at Farm Management Minute_Issue 5 . Continue reading
As producers start to wrap up 2013 harvest, decisions for 2014 will soon need to be made. Of immediate attention is the decision of whether to plant wheat. The recommended planting window will soon be closing. Other decisions will soon focus on variety selection for 2014 as suppliers generally start booking the varieties for the next year. Considering those decisions, the 2014 crop plan has definitely started as producers start sketching out their 2014 cropping plan. Continue reading
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Click on the above link to access information in a PDF that will allow certified crop advisors to record CEU information on-site at meetings such as TAPA, etc..
This has been a difficult start to the planting season with weather delays constantly occurring or at least seeming that way. Generally, the best yields are achieved when crops are planted during their recommended time period which is usually their optimum planting window. Planting is a critical farm operation that needs to be done on a timely basis. Planting on a timely basis generally means planting when the soil temperature and soil moisture are at an optimum level. The optimum time period is usually narrow so producers will have some crop planted in less than optimum conditions. This year is seeing the optimum window even narrower because of the weather. Continue reading
To: Producers and Agribusinesses in Tennessee
The University of Tennessee Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is in the process of updating the publication Farm Machinery Custom Rates by Crop Reporting Districts. It was published in 1997 so it is quite out of date. We get numerous request for custom rates throughout the year so it is a very useful publication. We need your help in obtaining a list of custom operators, farmers, and agribusiness firms. Continue reading
The USDA – Risk management Agency (RMA) announced on March 1, 2013 the 2013 crop year projected prices for corn, cotton, grain sorghum, and soybeans. The projected or base price for the Yield Protection (YP), Revenue Protection (RP), and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion (RPHPE) were $5.65 per bushel for corn, 83 cents/lb. cotton, $5.53 grain sorghum, and $12.87 soybeans. Continue reading