The Tennessee Field Office of USDA, NASS has released the 2016 cotton yields per acre for Tennessee. They can be accessed at Cotton16_TN. Please note that counties not meeting NASS publication standards are combined and shown under Other Cntys and included in State totals. Districts not meeting NASS publication standards are combined and shown under Other Districts and included in State totals.
Released: May 10, 2017
Tennessee’s Expected Winter Wheat Production Down 12 Percent from 2016
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its May Crop Production report today based on the Agricultural Yield survey conducted at the beginning of the month. The report includes information on Tennessee’s winter wheat forecast and on-farm hay stocks.
Tennessee farmers expect to harvest 21.5 million bushels of winter wheat during 2017. The expected crop for 2017 would be down 12 percent from the previous year. Farmers seeded 390,000 acres last fall with 295,000 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 73 bushels per acre, unchanged from 2016. Acres for other uses totaled 95,000 acres and will be used as cover crop or cut as silage or hay. Continue reading at PR_MAY17_TN.
Judging by calls there is a good deal of frustration with the lack of Caparol, Cotoran and Diuron. A lot of folks are scrambling trying to come up with a Plan B or even a Plan C as cotton planters roll. Continue reading
RAINS CONINUE TO BE BENEFICIAL FOR SOME, HINDRENCE FOR OTHERS
Cool, wet weather continued to keep agricultural producers out of fields. Corn, cotton, and soybean planting, along with tobacco transplanting made little or no progress as farmers waited for the rains to stop for a second week, and even caused some to contemplate changing their choice of crops to plant. The rains did improve pasture conditions in some areas, and caused some muddy pasture conditions in others. There were only 2.2
days suitable for field work, combined with 2.0 last week. As rains continued, topsoil moisture was 54 percent adequate and 46 percent surplus. Subsoil moisture levels were similar with only 1 percent short, but 67 percent adequate and 32 percent surplus. Continue reading at TN_05_08_17. The U.S. Crop Progress report can be read at CropProg-05-08-2017.
Corn, soybeans, and wheat were up; cotton was down for the week. Snow in the central plains from last weekend provided the initial catalyst for a rally in grain markets early in the week; however by the end of the week corn and wheat gave back over half of the early week gains.
Corn planting progress increased 17% last week (approximately 15.3 million acres planted in one week). It is truly remarkable how quickly farmers can plant a crop if Mother Nature cooperates. Continue reading at Tennessee Market Highlights.
April and May weather have not supported long stretches of field work, and some producers report not planting as much corn as intended. Have had discussions about how late to continue to plant corn since we are past the early window for what is usually optimal yield. Continue reading
Last summer Dr. Tom Barber, University of Arkansas weed scientist, invited me to visit his field research on glyphosate/PPO-resistant Palmer amaranth in Crittenden County, Arkansas. As was expected glyphosate and Flexstar provided very poor Palmer amaranth control in his tests.
What was not expected is that a number of other herbicides provided poor control as well. Even dicamba at 0.5 lbs/A (Clarity 16 oz) on small Palmer amaranth provided less than optimal control. Continue reading