There really has not been anything “new” in grain sorghum herbicides to talk about for years. Basically it all started and ended with Bicep. In recent years that has changed and there are several new herbicides for grain sorghum. Continue reading
The National Cotton Council has scheduled two meetings in Tennessee to provide members with information on the provisions of the new farm bill. Continue reading
Tennessee Market Highlights for March 14, 2014 have been posted at http://economics.ag.utk.edu/market/tnmkt/2014/market031414.pdf.
Check out the latest issue of Farm Management Minute at Farm Management Minute_Issue 6.
Dr. Aaron Smith’s comments on the March 10 USDA Supply & Demand reports have been posted along with a Profitability Outlook update at http://economics.ag.utk.edu/outlook.html .
It’s now old news that tobacco thrips in much of the Mid South have apparently developed resistance to thiamethoxam, the insecticide component used in several cotton seed treatments including Cruiser, Avicta Complete, and Acceleron N. Control failures with thiamethoxam were documented in several experiments throughout the Mid South this past season So what does this mean for thrips management in 2014? Continue reading
I get several questions each year about sources for sweep nets and pheromone trapping supplies, especially for southwestern corn borer. We get ours from Great Lakes IPM (http://www.greatlakesipm.com/). I’ve included specific links below, but there are other sources including Gemplers (sweep net and bucket traps) and Forestry Suppliers (for sweep nets).
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It finally looks like this long winter is coming to a close. We will likely start putting out burndown applications this week. We are well behind the burndown pace of most Tennessee springs where at least some would have burndown applications applied by this time. However, this was not a typical winter and as such we are not behind with respect to weed maturity. Continue reading