Calls have diminished about false chinch bugs in cotton. However, calls about new infestations are still trickling in, so we are not necessarily out of the woods. There have been many fields treated with insecticide, and spot replanting was also needed in Continue reading
Wheat harvest started last week and will be wide open this week of May 21st. Double-crop soybean planting will begin in earnest. Continue reading
Actually, thinking of thrips as raining from the sky is pretty accurate; and we are getting a pretty good flood in most areas. Many people are reporting 2-15 thrips per plant on cotton from the cotyledon stage up to the second true leaf. These calls are pretty easy to answer. Spray if multiple thrips are present on plants with less than two true leaves. Certainly apply a foliar insecticide if the first or second true leaf has obvious signs of thrips injury … Continue reading
False chinch bugs are a pest that can kill cotton and soybean seedlings. I see them in a few fields almost every year, but they are causing more widespread problems this year with reports from Madison, Gibson, Haywood and Hardeman Counties. Infestations almost always occur in Continue reading
As reported by NASS on May 14, 2012
WEEKEND SHOWERS WELCOMED BY FARMERS
Showers and thunderstorms provided some needed relief this weekend, but it has been so dry recently that all regions of the state continue to need a general soaking rain. Crops continue to develop at rapid rate well ahead of normal. Corn planting is complete, all emerged and in mostly good condition. Cotton and soybean planting and tobacco transplanting were the main farm activities last week. Fertilizing, spraying post-emergence herbicides and hay harvest were also major farm activities. The wheat crop is ripening and farmers expect to begin harvest within the next two weeks. Continue reading
Dear Colleagues
The University of Tennessee Weed Tour will be on Thursday, June 21 at the West Tennessee Research & Education Center in Jackson, TN. Registration will start at 8:30 A.M. and the tour will begin at 9:00 A.M.. Continue reading
Dry weather forced most producers to temporarily quit planting soybeans last week and into this week with planting resuming in limited areas that received rains this weekend. We are about 25% planted at this point but without enough moisture to get seedlings out the ground in many parts of the state, seeds are better off in the bag. Stands have been uniform and look good for beans planted in late April and the first few days in May but some folks that pushed it on moisture are going to have mixed results with partially emerged stands that will need to get some rain to finish the job. Beans that are Continue reading
From Chris Main, Brian Leib, David Verbree, and Larry Steckel.
Rainfall continues to be spotty across Tennessee. Some locations have continued to have adequate moisture while other areas continue to miss the passing thunderstorms. Continue reading