• By Jennifer Whitlock •
In recent weeks, farm input costs have soared to record highs, leading farmers and ranchers in the Lone Star State to become increasingly worried.
During an interview with RFD-TV, Texas Farm Bureau President Russell Boening relayed...
• By Dominic Reisig •
Southern corn billbug is a historical pest of corn in the southeastern United States, and in North Carolina, was a persistent pest throughout the Coastal Plain. Nearly 100 years ago (1917), a biologist named Z.P....
Helping farmers turn the tide on an emerging disease of corn, tar spot, is the focus of a multi-organization team of scientists, including from the Agricultural Research Service in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis, tar spot...
Mississippians are exploring the relatively new and growing carbon offset market, although many issues related to this market remain under discussion.
Larry Oldham, soil specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said daily, normal activities such as driving vehicles,...
High energy costs and wet weather have delayed the harvest of what is expected to be a record corn crop in Kentucky. To preserve yield and quality, a University of Kentucky agricultural engineer is recommending producers consider harvesting and...
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” Crop farmers should take this adage to heart when marketing their grain, advised University of Missouri Extension agricultural economist Martyn Foreman.
“If you haven’t already developed a post-harvest grain marketing...
Mississippi’s corn crop faced challenges ranging from a midseason flood to an early September hurricane, but yields and quality look positive on the nearly complete harvest.
On Sept. 13, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated the crop was 75% harvested....
• By Larry Oldham •
Participating in the soil carbon (C) market requires baseline information about the producer’s inventory to offer potential buyers. This fall is the time for the soil carbon-curious growers to begin establishing their benchmarks. Surveys show...
Corn harvest is underway and soybean harvest will soon begin in South Carolina. To help farmers make decisions related to storing or field drying grain crops, Clemson University has a new app.
The app is the Clemson EMC Calculator, developed...
• 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 Mary Hightower •
Arkansas growers will be paying closer attention to their weather apps with development of Tropical Depression 9 and a forecast path that could bring the storm’s wind and rain to the delta by early next...
• By Angela McClure•
Recent showers in some counties will help maximize the yield potential of corn even at this late stage. Overall yield potential of the crop is good, however heat stress and limited rainfall will affect yield numbers...
• By Fred Miller •
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture has appointed Trent Roberts the Endowed Chair in Soil Fertility Research. Roberts is an associate professor of soil fertility and testing for the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station...
Dr. Greg Sword, Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Entomology professor, has received $499,000 to determine fall armyworm behaviors and genomic traits that could aid in controlling the agricultural pests.
The three-year project funded by the...
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...
