• By Scott Stewart •
The fall armyworm outbreak of 2021 is going to be one to remember. My colleague, Dr. Gus Lorenz in Arkansas, called it “epic.”
We knew something was different this year when another colleague in Texas, Dr....
In the 1984 film “The Terminator,” a robotic assassin played by Arnold Schwarzenegger warns, “I’ll be back.”
If waterhemp could talk, it might say the same thing. Waterhemp can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. The prolific producer...
• By Rasel Parvej and David Moseley •
Nitrogen (N) is the most yield limiting nutrient for any row crop including soybean. Since soybean, like other legume crops, can fix atmospheric N symbiotically through Rhizobium bacteria (Bradyrhizobia japonicum), the crop...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
For the past week we have been getting reports along with a good many pictures of Palmer amaranth escaping dicamba application/s from retailers and consultants scouting fields (Picture 1 and 2). As...
• By Larry Steckel •
It is July 1, so the June 30 cut-off to spray dicamba over Xtend soybean has passed. The questions of the week have been once July has arrived what alternatives are there to control Palmer...
• By Jeff Gore, Angus Catchot, Whitney Crow and Don Cook •
We have had numerous calls over the past week or two about poor control of fall armyworm with pyrethroids. They started in the southern part of the state...
Mississippi State University Extension agents will be assessing agricultural damage from early-June flooding until well into July, but preliminary estimates indicate losses could break records.
The 2019 Yazoo Backwater Area flood caused $617 million in crop damage alone. It looks...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Farmers in five counties in southeastern Arkansas suffered more than $200 million in direct losses to major crops after the major flooding and storm event in early June, according to a preliminary estimate by experts...
Mississippi agricultural producers and landowners who are interested in carbon sequestration can test their soil’s carbon content through the Mississippi State University Extension Service.
The Extension Soil Testing Laboratory recently added tests that quantify amounts of organic matter and detect...
• By Jeremy Ross •
With the exceptional rainfall we have had over the past two weeks, especially in southern Arkansas, I have had numerous calls asking how flooding will affect a soybean plant. The answer to this question is,...
• By Larry Oldham •
Flooding is challenging Mississippi families, homes and farms again, hence, this should be a review for many readers. The first Mississippi Crop Situation post about flooded soils was published in May 2011.
There is more experience...
Insect control will play a major role in the management of double-crop soybeans after wheat harvest is completed, said an Oklahoma State University Extension expert.
Experienced farmers know soybeans planted after wheat are vulnerable to several insect pests, but most...
• By Larry Steckel, Clay Perkins and Delaney Foster •
Judging from research tests and walking a few farmers’ fields, many of the preemergence-applied herbicides in soybeans and cotton played out about a week or so ago. Timing is everything...
• By Angela McClure •
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.
However, wheat dry down and double crop...
Double cropping is a practice where farmers harvest one crop, and then plant and harvest a second crop in the same field – all within the same year. It allows farmers to make the most out of the limited...
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