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2023 Planning Resources

Clemson Fertilizer Blend Calculator Released in 2022, this web app calculator was developed to help evaluate different fertilizer blends for meeting nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium requirements in a cost effective and accurate manner. Calculator outputs depend on user-indicated nutrient application rates...

Status of southern corn billbug in North Carolina Blacklands

• 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....

Managing insects in corn

Corn producers know that corn is most vulnerable to insects pressures within the first four weeks. For that reason, pre-plant herbicide burndown applications and other integrated pest management practices are key to a successful crop. Seed treatments are important Alabama Cooperative...

EPA registers new fungicidal seed treatment

The Environmental Protection Agency has registered Vayantis fungicide seed treatment from Syngenta for use on corn and soybeans. It contains the active ingredient picarbutrazox, a completely new active ingredient that targets key blight and damping-off diseases, such as Pythium and...

28 States Register Nufarm’s Nematicidal Seed Treatment

Nufarm Americas Inc. has gained approval in 28 states for its new seed-applied nematicide, Trunemco, for use in soybeans, corn and cotton. This follows Environmental Protection Agency registration in May. States in which it is now registered include Texas, Oklahoma,...

EPA Cancels 12 Neonicotinoids

Effective May 20, the Environmental Protection Agency has cancelled registrations of 12 neonicotinoid insecticides based on voluntary requests from product registrants, according to a May 20 Federal Register notice. Under a December 2018 settlement agreement linked to an Endangered Species Act...

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