UT Releases Field Crop Insect Management Recommendations
The University of Tennessee Extension Service says the 2020 version of PB 1768, Insect Management Recommendations for Field Crops (and pasture), is now available online.
“The guide has gone through substantial revision this year...
I don’t like thick stands of cotton. What looks just right in May is too thick in August. And I sure don’t like hill-dropping that results in three or more plants per hill. I can’t stand spindly stalks. Think...
• By Johnny Morgan •
The Louisiana State University AgCenter recently presented awards to three students who have worked at AgCenter research stations in northeast Louisiana.
The awards, given to full-time and part-time student workers, were recommended by faculty at the...
In 2018, the state began spending greenhouse gas reduction fund money from the Cap and Trade Program on the Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions Program.
The FARMER Program was designed to mirror the state’s existing Carl Moyer Program...
Imagine A Season Without Foliar Sprays For Thrips
As most growers, consultants and researchers will painfully attest, thrips were extremely heavy and problematic throughout most of the Southeastern cotton and peanut growing region in 2019.
From Georgia and Alabama to the...
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Jamey Duesterhaus has grown PhytoGen® cottonseed since 2017 on irrigated and dryland acres near Littlefield in the Texas Panhandle. Following the 2016 season, he says he was looking for varieties to help control the resistant weed species...
Agworld recently acquired all of the assets of Greenbook, a comprehensive database of crop protection labels and information, from Farm Journal.
The move will allow Agworld to complement and expand its current offerings that provide collaborative farm management on a...
• By Clint Thompson •
Georgia’s cotton crop was decimated by Hurricane Michael in 2018. Now, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension cotton agronomist Jared Whitaker is hoping his research will help alleviate some of the risks associated with harvesting cotton...
Drier than normal conditions this winter could be a harbinger for a hotter-than-normal summer if future weather patterns fail to deliver moisture. As Texas A&M AgriLife Extension district reporters compiled district summaries, many showed dry winter conditions.
Texas A&M AgriLife...
Recent passage of a Congressional act may bring relief to farmers who experienced crop losses due to drought in 2018 and 2019. In December 2019, Congress passed the FY2020 Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, making crop production losses due to...
For the second straight year, Arkansas’ “ginning season” may go into extra innings.
Despite the wet weather delays, growers had good reason to be optimistic about their 2019 crop, said Bill Robertson, Extension cotton agronomist, and Scott Stiles, Extension economist...
PhytoGen Horizon Network growers will plant the industry’s first reniform-resistant cottonseed varieties in 2020.
A first for the cotton industry, these three PhytoGen pre-commercial varieties include the PhytoGen Breeding Trait for reniform resistance, which offers naturally occurring native traits for...
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Managing Editor •
BASF plans to launch one new cotton variety for the 2020 season, sticking to its belief that any new release should offer a benefit over existing ones.
“We tested five experimental lines last year and...
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Scott Asher, Ph.D.
Regional Agronomy Manager, BASF
Spring Hope, North Carolina
Over the past couple of growing seasons, there have been some hot spots of increased damage from cotton bollworm in two-gene Bt cotton in certain areas of the...
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PhytoGen® brand varieties contain PhytoGen Breeding Traits™ that offer built-in protection against some of the most common yield-robbing pests and diseases found in cotton.
All PhytoGen® W3FE varieties are resistant to bacterial blight.
Additional protection from root-knot...
