Two old and now “new” again corn viral diseases Maize Dwarf Mosaic (MDM) and Maize Chlorotic Dwarf (MCDV) have been causing severe stunting of corn in a few fields in southwest Tennessee. With the slowly increasing spread of glyphosate-resistant (GR) Johnsongrass it was only a matter of time before these two diseases would once again become an issue in corn. Continue reading
In the past 10 days, the TN cotton crop appears to have turned the corner. Still, most all our acres classify as ‘late’, with the majority of the crop planted after the 15th of May. That in itself isn’t too troubling, but the failure of late May and early June to provide any decent growing conditions delayed our crop even more. A long fall would correct most all issues, but I’ve not had much luck slowing time or changing the weather. Fortunately, we can take a few management strategies in the coming weeks to partially mitigate our painfully slow start to this season. In this blog, I highlight management decisions in three areas that can help us emphasize earliness- fertility, plant growth and plant bugs. Continue reading
There are some who have or soon will apply Zidua (pyroxasulfone) via impregnated fertilizer in cotton. My understanding is that this has been done successfully in Texas in years past. Along with those applications we have applied some in research as well a few days ago. One would expect no cotton injury applied via fertilizer to dry foliage. Indeed, that was the case in our trials. Continue reading
Some of the earlier planted cotton fields will soon be entering the true “laying it by” application timing. Given that some in 2020 were not successful spraying the same Palmer amaranth or junglerice multiple times with glyphosate + dicamba going back to an “old school” layby is a good plan. Continue reading
JACKSON, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host the annual Weed Tour on Wednesday, June 16 at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center. The guided tour will feature 60 weed management research tests in corn, soybean and cotton as well as a demonstration of herbicide symptomology. Continue reading
Judging from research tests and walking a few farmers’ fields many of the PRE applied herbicides in soybean and cotton played out about a week or so ago. Timing is everything on trying to do the best job on Palmer amaranth that has broken through the PREs. With respect to Palmer amaranth that has low-level dicamba or 2,4-D resistance (2 to 3x), timing is even more important. Moreover, herbicide selection is also critical in controlling resistant Palmer. Continue reading
JACKSON, Tenn. – The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture will host the annual Weed Tour on Wednesday, June 16 at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center. The guided tour will feature 50 weed management research tests in corn, soybean and cotton as well as a demonstration of herbicide symptomology. Continue reading
The June 6 Tennessee crop progress report indicated over seventy percent (72%) of our soybean crop was in the ground, which is an improvement over the past few years. Continue reading