Out-of-control weeds are the latest challenge to hit Texas producers among the negative effects related to untimely rains since late spring, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.
Rainy weather across the state has created a convergence of...
• By Anders Huseth •
As we near early August, cotton growers should be shifting their focus from early season insects to late season pests that arrive after bloom, particularly bollworms and stink bugs. Bollworms have been a persistent pest...
• By Mary Hightower •
A rise in COVID-19 cases has prompted the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture to cancel in-person field days, with some morphing into online formats.
The Division of Agriculture had four in-person field days on...
• By Larry Steckel •
We have visited fields where growers have found Palmer amaranth that escaped an auxin herbicide (Engenia, XtendiMax, Enlist One) application also escaped follow-up glufosinate (Liberty) application (Pictures 1 and 2).
Auxin herbicide-resistant Palmer amaranth was documented...
Nufarm Americas Inc. has launched Leopard Herbicide, a premix of two sulfonylureas, for soybeans, field corn and cotton.
It contains the active ingredients rimsulfuron and thifensulfuron in a water-dispersible granule formulation. Both are members of the Weed Science Society of...
• By Larry Steckel and Delaney Foster •
We have visited fields where growers assumed their Engenia or XtendiMax + glyphosate had controlled Palmer amaranth only to find that many had escaped and are now quite large (Picture 1). The...
• By Dominic Reisig •
North Carolina State Extension has two thresholds for bollworm, depending on the type of cotton planted:
Bollgard II, TwinLink, WideStrike: 25 total eggs on 100 leaves or fruiting structures (search throughout the canopy on multiple plants)
Bollgard...
Texas Tech University's Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute, in conjunction with the Lubbock Cotton Exchange, will host the 40th session of the Texas International Cotton School Aug. 2-12.
The High Plains program features two weeks of classes, lectures, tours and...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
As they say, there’s no accounting for taste.
Plant bugs, a perennial pest of Arkansas cotton, spend much of June and early July feasting on the silk of corn while it’s still green, the plants still...
• By Larry Steckel and Clay Perkins •
There have been several reports last week of multiple glyphosate and/or clethodim applications not controlling barnyardgrass or jungle rice. We really do not know the precise reasons for the lack of control...
Drew Gholson, coordinator of the National Center for Alluvial Aquifer Research and Mississippi State University Extension irrigation specialist, covers irrigation water management practices that decrease water use and increase yield, net returns and water use efficiency in Mid-South cotton...
The June 30 U.S. Department of Agriculture planting estimates report indicated 410,000 acres of cotton in Alabama for 2021. The number for the prior two seasons was 450,000 acres, so the reduction is about 9%. Nationwide, cotton acres are...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
Arkansas growers responded to a global economy beginning to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic with shifting acreage, betting big on corn and pulling back from cotton, according to data from a U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Researchers discussed sustainability, farmland conservation and better water quality at the Cotton and Grain Field Day held at Somerset Plantation in Tensas Parish June 24. Attendees took part in unique learning opportunities and hands-on demonstrations that highlighted the benefits...
CNH Industrial N.V., which manufacturers Case IH and New Holland farm equipment, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the capital stock of Raven Industries Inc. for $58 per share. Totaling $2.1 billion, the price represents a...
