The joint Kentucky-Tennessee Grain Conference will be held on February 8, 2013 at the Logan County Extension Office, 255 John Paul Avenue, Russellville, KY. The program begins at 8:00 AM and ends at 3:00 AM. Program
The Tennessee Grain & Soybean Producers Conference is scheduled for Thursday, February 7 at the Dyer County Fairgrounds, James Rice Road, in Dyersburg (GPS coordinates: N 36.066730, W 089.365147). Registration begins at 7:45 AM with the first presentation scheduled for 9:00 AM. Trade show and sponsor booths will be open at 8:00 AM. Draft Program Directions
The Middle Tennessee Grain Conference is scheduled for Thursday, January 31 at the Coffee County Fairgrounds in Manchester. Registration begins at 7:30 AM, with the first presentation scheduled for 8:30 AM. Contact the Coffee County Extension Office (931-723-5141) for registration information. Complete Program
Please see the revised program for the annual UT Cotton Focus meeting being held on Thursday, February 14 at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson. Pre-registration is not required. Program
The annual UT Cotton Focus meeting will be held at the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson on the morning of Thursday, February 14. We expect a full schedule of speakers covering important topics related to cotton production. Please mark your calendars!
The 2012 Tennessee Farmland Legacy Conference “Planning Today for Tomorrow’s Farms” which will be held November 1st at Montgomery Bell State Park in Burns, Tennessee. Continue reading
If you are planning on planting wheat this fall you will want to evaluate crop insurance on your wheat crop. The deadline to take out crop insurance for wheat is fast approaching. A colleague from University of Missouri Extension- David Reinbott, Ag Business Specialist in Benton, MO put the following information together on wheat crop insurance. For the most part, it is applicable for Tennessee. Please look it over. The deadline to sign up for crop insurance for wheat is September 30. With the potential of lower commodity prices next summer, a farmer should take a close look at the revenue based crop insurance products Revenue Protection (RP) and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion (RP-HPE). Continue reading
In Tennessee and much of the Mid-South, the months of September and October are generally the times producers finalize their decision on whether to plant wheat. Certainly, there are many other decisions occurring during this harvest period, but producers interested in wheat should have already developed their wheat production plan. There are normally several factors that are examined when developing a wheat production plan. The factor I most look at is the profitability factor. Continue reading