The U. S Department of Agriculture (USDA) will provide more than $3 billion to commodity and specialty crop producers impacted by natural disaster events in 2022. Eligible impacted producers can apply for financial assistance through the Emergency Relief Program (ERP) 2022.
The...
• By Erick Larson •
Mississippi State University annually conducts Corn for Grain Hybrid Trials, which are an extremely valuable resource to help select corn hybrids for your farm — MAFES Corn Hybrid Trials. These hybrid trials are typically grown...
• By Ryan McGeeney •
As the high heat of summer begins pressing down on Arkansas, harvest of the first of the state’s major commodity crops has begun in earnest.
By Aug. 22, 9% of the state’s approximately 690,000 acres of...
• By Kinsey Everhart •
Aflatoxins are a type of mycotoxin that is produced by Aspergillus flavus, which has a worldwide impact on human and animal health. They are particularly dangerous to animals because their diet usually has less variety...
• By Ed Sikora •
Southern rust was found in Crenshaw, Henry, and Monroe counties last week, increasing the number of counties reporting the disease to six for Alabama. Disease severity was low in each case, but I assume the...
• By Matt Foster •
With much of our early-planted corn denting (Figure 1), kernels are filling weight and size. Since heat unit accumulation has been lower this year, crop development may be a few days behind schedule.
As the corn...
Mississippi State University annually conducts Corn for Grain Hybrid Trials which are an extremely valuable resource for you to help select corn hybrids for your farm – MAFES Corn Hybrid Trials. These hybrid trials are typically grown in eight...
• By Pat Porter •
Dr. Suhas Vyavhare and I are conducting a very detailed experiment this year on some aspects of Bt corn. Part of the experiment involves putting 120 emergence cages on the ground under corn after corn...
• By De Broughton, Ian Small and Fanny Iriarte •
What are the symptoms?
In recent weeks, extension agents in various locations across North Florida (primarily in the Northeast) have received calls from growers and consultants about symptoms of rapid decline...
John Deere has added two models of X Series combines to its 2021 harvesting lineup to help large-scale farmers thresh, separate and clean more bushels per hour or harvest more acres per day without risking grain loss or quality....
• By Erick Larson •
Mississippi’s corn crop is spread out this year across a considerable range of planting dates, with a few early fields already tasseling, and the bulk will be soon. Tassels clearly distinguish the transition from vegetative...
• By Bruce Schultz •
Planting is underway or about to start for most crops in Louisiana, and farmers are watching the markets closely as the world economy reels from the fallout created by the novel coronavirus.
Louisiana State University AgCenter...
The Tassel Count analytics product will be available to all Sentera FieldAgent customers in March 2020.
Instead of forecasting yield with a few spot samples, Sentera Tassel Count analytics tool allows users to more precisely calculate yields using tassel population...
A team of researchers from the University of Arkansas are designing tiny sensors that can be placed in corn stalks to monitor water, nitrogen and potassium needs in real time.
The data collected from those sensors — matched with geographic,...
• By Jason Kelley •
As we get to late July, many Arkansas corn growers are making decisions about irrigation termination. Corn that was planted in March in south Arkansas is nearing black layer or at black layer now. Corn ...
