A wet and mostly cold March has us well behind the pace for burndown. As soon as the weather permits corn planting will take priority followed by burndown for grain sorghum and early planted soybean. Continue reading
With planting season just around the corner there are a few management considerations to keep in mind with respect to your cover crop. Continue reading
The wheat has really progressed well over the past two weeks. Some stands that one might think were borderline on keeping have made good progress during that time. Continue reading
It appears that grain sorghum will be a historically big acre crop this year. A number of these intended fields to be planted to grain sorghum were in soybean last year and had late applications of fomesafen (FlexStar, Prefix, Reflex, Rhythm, Dawn etc). Continue reading
When planning your burndown does a residual make sense? That depends on if a follow-up burndown is planned at planting, the expected planting date and what is the intended crop. If the expected planting date is 3 weeks or so off and the plan is to burndown with something at planting then a residual in with the burndown now is probably not warranted. However, if the intended planting date is more than 30 days away, then a residual can provide the advantage of not having a big, grown up mess to have to plant into. Continue reading
It finally looks like this long winter is coming to a close! I hope we can start putting out burndown applications in the next week to ten days. Continue reading
With snow in the forecast, I hope you find some warmth in our hot-off-the-press 2015 Tennessee Cotton Quick Facts Publication (W 319) which is now available online. New this year are digital hyperlinks to all full-length UTIA publications. Simply click on the grey boxes or related QR codes describing the publication in which you are interested and your browser will do the rest. Keep losing your guide or tired of carrying paper guides around? Open this document with the reader on your mobile device (if Apple, your iBooks app) to have a digital copy at your fingertips at all times. Hyperlinks will still work!
A number of calls have come in concerning weed control in wheat. Continue reading