There was about 20,000 acres of Enlist cotton planted in Tennessee in 2017. Visiting with Extension agents, retailers and farmers this spring it is clear that there will be many fold more acres of Enlist cotton planted in 2018 compared to 2017. Continue reading
The University of Tennessee Cotton Scout School will be held Thursday, May 24th, at the Agricultural Museum at the Research and Education Center in Milan (3A Ledbetter Gate Road, Milan, TN 38358). There is no fee, and preregistration is not required. Registration begins at 8:00 AM with the program starting at 8:45. Content will include hands-on training with an optional ‘go-to-the-field session’ after a box lunch. Topics covered will include cotton development, identification of insects (and their damage) weed and diseases and their damage, and weed identification.
Please note that this is a new location because of ongoing renovation at the Jackson Office.
Corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat were down for the week.
The big news for markets this week was the release of the USDA’s May World
Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. The May Report
provided the first WASDE estimates for the new crop (2018/19 marketing
year). The planted acreage data was from the Prospective Plantings report
and the yield data was a weather adjusted trend yield, so it is likely that many changes will occur over the growing season as more information is revealed. However, the report does set a “baseline” for production, use, and stocks for the each crop. Continue reading at Tennessee Market Highlights.
Tennessee cotton producers in 2017 harvested 732,000 bales of cotton on 340,000 acres for an average yield of 1033 pounds per acre. Haywood County led the state with 59,600 acres harvested producing 123,300 bales of cotton. For a breakdown by county for 2017 cotton production, continue reading at Cotton17_TN.
USDA, NASS, Tennessee Field Office In Cooperation with:
Debra Kenerson, State Statistician PO Box 41505
Nashville, Tennessee 37204-1505 Tennessee Department of Agriculture
(615) 781-5300 or 1-800-626-0987 Jai Templeton, Commissioner
Email: nass-tn@nass.usda.gov
Released: May 10, 2018
Tennessee 2018 Wheat Production Expected to Increase
Tennessee farmers expect to harvest 21.6 million bushels of winter wheat during 2018 according to the Tennessee Field Office of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. The expected crop for 2018 would be up 12 percent from the previous year. Farmers seeded 400,000 acres last fall with 300,000 acres to be harvested for grain. Based on crop conditions as of May 1 and assuming a normal growing season, farmers expect a yield of 72.0 bushels per acre, up 2.0 bushels from 2017. Acres for other uses totaled 100,000 acres and will be used as cover crop or cut as silage or hay. Continue reading
There is nothing of great concern going on, but I wanted to mention one thing I am getting some calls about. Corn leaf aphids are being found on seedling corn, more than likely moving from weedy grasses that were in the field. This is nothing to get too excited about. It is unlikely these infestations will hurt yield. It does suggest that insecticide seed treatments are no longer working. This is not surprising in many cases because it took two or more weeks for much of out early planted corn to emerge. This does make a point that Continue reading
Be alert for true armyworm infestations in wheat, and these larvae may also migrate into soybean, corn or other crops from adjacent wheat fields of grassy ditch banks. They might even be on weedy grasses or wheat or other grasses used in cover crops, and this could cause a problem if Continue reading