I have seen snails, primarily on cotton, many times is my career. My standard line has been that “snails do not cause economic damage”. However, I’ve seen Continue reading
With the early planted cotton beginning to square, it is time to be thinking about your plans for managing plant bugs in 2013. Continue reading
As reported by NASS on June 17, 2013
WHEAT HARVEST FINALLY BEGAN
Farmers took advantage of good weather conditions across the state last week and finally began to harvest the wheat crop. Even with 11 percent of the wheat crop being harvested this past week, harvest is still about two weeks behind the five year average. The wheat conditions have been good throughout the spring, but lodging has caused some yield issues. Farmers were also busy switching over from corn to soybeans in fields that had been flooded and needed to be replanted. Continue reading
After a very wet spring, many of us have been experiencing high temperatures and a break in rainfall. Although we are busy harvesting wheat and planting wheat-beans, it is time to consider irrigating Continue reading
It appears there will be a great deal of late May and June planted corn in Tennessee this year. Temperatures are beginning to warm up, and this late planted corn will grow very quickly. Moreover the Palmer amaranth with this weather can emerge and grow to 8” in just 13 days. Therefore if this late planted corn does not have a pre emerge applied it will need to be sprayed soon. Continue reading
Heavy rains have thinned out some soybean stands and inclement weather has reduced the cotton acreage from what was intended. Calls are coming in about replanting poor soybean stands or replanting from cotton to corn or soybeans. Continue reading
We are getting questions from folks in Middle Tennessee now on how to control severe infestations of Palmer amaranth 6 to 8” tall in Roundup Ready (RR) soybeans. This is a big milestone because Palmer amaranth could not be found as recently as 2008 and 2009 in several surveys we ran in Middle TN. Continue reading
Prices have been updated after the June 12th USDA Supply & Demand report. The midpoint of USDA’s price projections are $4.80 bushel corn, $0.83 pound cotton ($0.91 with seed rebate, etc.), $4.40 bushel grain sorghum, $10.75 bushel soybeans, and $6.90 bushel wheat. Continue reading