The Crop Progress reports by NASS have started back. Continue reading at CropProg-04-05-2016.
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Apr
2016
Recent Updates
04
Apr
2016
Tarnished plant bugs get an early start
04
Apr
2016
Tarnished plant bugs are the #1 insect pest of cotton in Tennessee. In the fall of the year, tarnished plant bug (TPB) nymphs develop into adults on weedy hosts in response to decreasing day lengths (Snodgrass 2014). Continue reading
04
Apr
2016
Ryegrass Control POST Options in Corn
04
Apr
2016
We will clearly have some ryegrass not controlled by the time corn emerges in a few fields. So what are the options if ryegrass is present in emerged corn? Continue reading
01
Apr
2016
Tennessee Market Highlights
01
Apr
2016
Corn was down; cotton, soybeans, and wheat were up for the week. On Thursday, the USDA released its annual Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports. Continue reading at Tennessee Market Highlights.
01
Apr
2016
Summary of the USDA’s Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks Report
01
Apr
2016
A Summary of the March 31 USDA’s Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks Report including a Profitability Update has been posted at UT Extension Summary of USDA’s Reports.
31
Mar
2016
UT Crop Marketing Update 3/31/2016
31
Mar
2016
Corn: The USDA released the acreage report at 11:00 AM today. This report caught the market off guard with a much larger than anticipated corn crop for 2016. In fact, the average trade estimate for the 2016 corn crop was 89.97 million acres. This was based primarily on the USDA’s Outlook Forum projection of 90.00 million acres of corn that was released back in February. Today’s report estimated that 93.60 million acres of corn will be planted in 2016. That is a significant increase over 2015’s levels and will be detrimental to U.S. corn prices. The increase stands to reason what many producers have been stating that they plan to do in 2016. Continue reading
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Mar
2016
March 1 Planting Intentions
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Mar
2016
Released: March 31, 2016
March 1 Planting Intentions
Farmers in Tennessee intend to plant 840,000 acres of corn, 60,000 higher than 2015. U.S. corn growers intend to plant 93.6 million acres for all purposes in 2016, up 6 percent from last year and 3 percent higher than 2014. Continue reading at MarchPP16_TN.
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Mar
2016
Soybean Burndown Options
31
Mar
2016
It is raining as I write and as soon as it dries corn planting will take priority along with some starting to think about early soybean planting. With the exception of Select Max, there is no major problem with planting corn right around a burndown application which makes it much easier than in soybean where many of the burndown herbicides have plant back restrictions. Continue reading