Ryegrass control this time of year can be very challenging. Ryegrass is most easily controlled with glyphosate when it is very small or when it is headed out. Glyphosate will typically provide inconsistent control of ryegrass between these two stages. Some kind of two pass approach has provided the best ryegrass control in our research. Continue reading
It appears that $1.00 cotton may be chasing a few cows out of the pasture! There have been a number of calls coming in about planting cotton in old bermuda grass or switchgrass pasture. Continue reading
With respect to burndown before corn planting it is getting late early! There has been very little burndown applied to date and this week looks to be a wash. The likelihood of getting more than just a handful of days to apply burndown before the end of the month is not good. Fortunately, we can apply Continue reading
Early Burndown. One overall observation on the winter annual weed pressure this spring is that bluegrass and henbit pressure is extremely heavy across many Tennessee row crop fields. In general, Continue reading
Recrop Intervals After Wheat Herbicides. There has been a lot of wheat sprayed in the last couple of weeks. Most of the wheat acres in the state look very good at this point. There may be a handful of fields however that may be more profitable to be burned down and replanted to another crop. Knowing when and what herbicides were applied Continue reading
Cotton Focus and Precision Ag Conference Presentations have been posted at UTCrops.com under Presentations or can be accessed by the following link. http://www.utextension.utk.edu/fieldCrops/presentations.htm
The state of Tennessee has just received a new 24c special needs label for Reflex herbicide use in cotton. It reads as follows:
After Reflex application, a minimum of 0.5 inch of rainfall or overhead irrigation must occur before planting cotton on medium or fine-textured soils. Continue reading
Many of you have heard about the budget reductions that were passed by the House of Representatives last week. The Smith-Lever cuts, if approved by the Senate Continue reading