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Defoliation thoughts heading into a cold front

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Defoliation became a little more complicated this week.  While we were lucky enough to miss the mid-week rain, the next few nights are going to be quite cold (upper 40s to low 50s) and it looks like it may be next weekend before lows reach the 60s again.  Changing conditions justify a change in rate and often a change in product.  In this blog, I highlight a few thoughts on building concoctions as we move through a pretty substantial shift in temperatures. Continue reading

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Good Time to Scout for Weeds

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Pigweed that has escaped dicamba + S-metolachlor + glyphosate on 4 to 6″ weeds followed 20 days later with dicamba + S-metolchlor + glyphosate: Montgomery County, TN. Sept 1, 2020

Some have been concerned about losing dicamba due to court or EPA rulings. Everyone should be more concerned about losing dicamba and 2,4-D to Charles Darwin’s theory. Weeds developing herbicide resistance has caused the loss of many more herbicides than anything a court or the EPA has ever done. It’s not even a close race.

This is particularly true for Palmer amaranth. The newest development is that Palmer amaranth has evolved dicamba resistance here in Tennessee. We are in the beginning stages of Palmer amaranth, yet again, becoming a major problem due to the loss of a herbicides’ utility on that weed. Continue reading

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2020 Cotton Tour VIRTUAL Videos now online

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The 2020 Cotton Tour Videos are now available. Presentations covering variety performance, weed, pest and disease management, irrigation and other topics have been recorded and posted on the UT Crops YouTube channel.  You can access the entire Cotton Tour by following this link.  We will be highlighting individual videos in the coming weeks on this blog. Continue reading

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