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Nebraska: Scout Corn and Soybean for Japanese Beetles
Japanese beetles will first feed on the leaves of soybean (left) and corn. In corn they'll move to the silks (right) when they become available. Photos: Justin McMechan, UNL Japanese beetle adults are beginning to emerge in eastern Nebraska. Their distribution has been increasing in Nebraska the last few years and they are being seen more frequently in corn and soybeans, in addition to feeding on landscape trees and shrubs. They will continue to emerge for the next few weeks.
Cleveland on Cotton: Tariff Talk, Weather and Defending the 80s
Cleveland on Cotton: Tariff Talk, Weather and Defending the 80s Posted on July 2, 2018July 2, 2018 By O. A. Cleveland, Consulting Economist, Cotton Experts Pivot irrigation in Texas cotton. Photo: Larry Stalcup, AgFax Media After some two months of moving to the upside cotton prices are now on the defense while attempting to hold the important 83-84 cent major support level. The next major support level would be 79 cents.
Iowa Corn: Conditions Ripe for Physoderma Brown Spot, Node Rot, Gray Leaf Spot
With most corn in Iowa at the V7-V12 range, it’s important to be aware of potential corn diseases at this particular time. Given the wet growing conditions over the last month, corn in parts of Iowa will be very susceptible to Physoderma brown spot and node rot, caused by the fungus Physoderma maydis, and gray leaf spot, caused by the fungus Cercospora zeae-maydis.
Soybeans: Who Makes a Profit? 7 Farms Compared - U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Russia, Ukraine
Examining the competitiveness of soybean production in different regions of the world is often difficult due to lack of comparable data and agreement regarding what needs to be measured. To be useful, international data needs to be expressed in common production units and converted to a common currency. Also, production and cost measures need to be consistently defined across production regions or farms.
Climate Change: Longer Growing Season, More Heat - 115 Years of Data
The past century of climate change has extended the average U.S. growing season by nearly two weeks but driven annual buildups of yield-stifling heat in the West and Northeast, says new research from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Relying on data collected from 1900 to 2014, the study assembled a region-by-region composite of how climate change has affected agricultural timelines and the yields of six major crops throughout the contiguous United States.
Nebraska: Dicamba Off-Target Injury Reports Are Increasing
Nebraska Extension educators, county offices, and extension specialists started receiving phone calls about suspected dicamba off-target injury in sensitive soybean fields, ornamental trees, vegetables, tree nurseries, and home gardens earlier this month. We are in the process of estimating the number of acres affected in Nebraska. There were certain instances where off-target movement was potentially from dicamba-based products applied in corn.
Virginia Cotton: Extended Dry Period Expected
Virginia Cotton: Extended Dry Period Expected Posted on July 2, 2018 By Johnny Parker, Commonwealth Gin ©Debra L Ferguson Stock Images Oh my goodness. We have just been able to start crossing these wet fields and now the popular weather forecast models are in agreement that there is almost no chance of rainfall for the first half of July. It sure changes my ideas on how much growth regulator I want to use on cotton.
Texas Upper Coast Cotton: Bollworms, Stink Bugs Picking Up
This week I’ve been seeing the bollworm (H. zea, corn ear worm, etc.) egg lay picking up. The most this week was in a field near Egypt, 24% of the plants had eggs. When eggs are laid in multiples like in the photo below, only count it as one egg. Bollworms are highly cannibalistic, and only one caterpillar is going to survive being that close together. I’ve seen a few small worms, and a few 3 to 4 day old larvae.
Mississippi Sweet Potatoes: Storage Root Initiation - Podcast
Mississippi Sweet Potatoes: Storage Root Initiation – Podcast Posted on July 2, 2018 By Stephen Meyers, Mississippi State University Extension Sweet Potato Specialist Dr. Stephen Meyers, Extension sweet potato specialist, discusses sweet potato storage root initiation. https://agfax.com/wp-content/uploads/MCSP-014-D1.mp3 Posted in Agricharts|No DTN, South, Mobile, Podcasts, MississippiTagged Mississippi, sweet potatoes, sweetpotatoes, podcast, sweet potato production, Stephen Meyers
Texas Mid-Coast Sorghum: Sugarcane Aphids Found Above Economic Threshold
While some sorghum fields in the Mid-Coast of Texas have already been harvested, the remaining fields should be inspected for Sugarcane Aphids (SCA). This week I have seen an increasing number of fields with treatable levels of aphids. Scout fields by walking at least 15-20 rows into the field and looking for honeydew on the plants. Two scouting methods can be followed depending on the threshold you plan on using.
Texas LRGV Crops: Premature Senescence; Whiteflies
It’s amazing how things can change so quickly from one week to the next. The Valley accumulated quite a bit of rainfall last week with most areas receiving anywhere from 7 to about 14 inches of rain in the course of 3 days. Temperatures still remain very hot in the high 90s, low 100s during the day and in the upper 70s at night with humidity reaching 90% most days. This weather is perfect to brew up pest problems in the upcoming weeks.
Louisiana Cotton: Get Ready for More Bollworms
Bollworm trap catches are highly variable across much of the cotton-growing regions of Louisiana. Trap catches at the Northeast Research Station, Macon Ridge Research Station and Red River Research Station are beginning to slightly increase from week to week. Louisiana typically experiences a large bollworm flight the week of July 4, and it appears this year will be no exception.
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The export sales for the week were reported higher than last week’s dismal 8,000 MT by a notable percentage. However, from a volume standpoint, 31,000 MT is not terribly exciting. In all, the market appears to be engaging in some rationing behavior as the processors are trying to stretch old crop inventories into the new crop harvest to the best of their ability.
Arkansas’ Soybean, Corn, Cotton, Rice Acreage Increases in 2018
The nation’s No. 1 rice producer added even more acres this year, and its soybean growers planted the most acres since 1997, according to the Arkansas numbers from Friday’s Acreage Report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service. In Arkansas, the total crop acreage increased from 7.169 million acres to 7.556 million acres in 2018.
Rough Rice Stocks Down from Last June
Rough rice stocks in all positions on June 1, 2018 totaled 45.1 million hundredweight (cwt), down 32 percent from the total on June 1, 2017. Stocks held on farms totaled 4.41 million cwt and off-farm stocks totaled 40.6 million cwt. Long grain varieties accounted for 71 percent of the total rough rice, medium grain accounted for 26 percent, and short grain varieties accounted for 3 percent. Milled rice stocks in all positions totaled 5.05 million cwt, down 6 percent from a year ago.
Texas Plains Pests: Insects Flaring, Weeds Toughening Up in High Heat
This week we have seen the return of some rather harsh hot and dry conditions. Most days the temperatures have been triple digit but if not, it was still in the upper 90’s with nighttime temperatures not cooling off all that much or for very long. What has really made the environment harsh for our crops and spray schedules has been the relentless winds that seem to only change patterns to gust to ridiculous rates. Heat units can certainly rack up quick in this environment.
USDA: Peanut Price Highlights
Peanut prices received by farmers for all farmer stock peanuts averaged 22.6 cents per pound for the week ending June 23, up 0.5 cent from the previous week. Marketings of all farmer stock peanuts for the week ending June 23 totaled 113 million pounds, up 36.9 million pounds from the previous week. Runner-type peanut prices averaged 22.0 cents per pound for the week ending June 23, down 0.1 cent from the previous week.
Grain Stocks: Soybeans Up Sharply, Wheat Declines - USDA
Corn stocks in all positions on June 1, 2018 totaled 5.31 billion bushels, up 1 percent from June 1, 2017. Of the total stocks, 2.75 billion bushels are stored on farms, down 3 percent from a year earlier. Off-farm stocks, at 2.56 billion bushels, are up 7 percent from a year ago. The March – May 2018 indicated disappearance is 3.59 billion bushels, compared with 3.39 billion bushels during the same period last year.
Dicamba Injury: Can Soybeans Recover? Missouri Researchers are Working on it.
Once dicamba injury has occurred to non-Xtend soybean, one of the common questions that will inevitably arise is, “can anything be done now to help the plants recover?” Last year we conducted one field research trial to address this question. In this research, we intentionally injured soybean with a 1/100X rate of dicamba at either the V3 or R2 stages of growth (black and gold bars, respectively, in Figure 1).
Arkansas Rice: Crops Are Heading - Will Temps Cause Flowering Stress?
“Listen, do you smell something?” That would be the start of heading in Arkansas rice. The first fields are just starting to pop heads this week 50% heading beginning on fields this weekend. What we really need is to shave a few degrees off our temperatures. As we enter the heading stage of the crop, it’s important that we have cool enough overnight temperatures to avoid temperature stress at flowering. Right now we’re toeing the line of the magical 75 degree mark for overnight lows.
South Carolina Cotton: Insects Stirring, Get In A Scouting Mindset
We continue to be in the window where we need to scout closely for aphids, spider mites and plant bugs. Aphids are still spotty but becoming more numerous. If you run into numerous ants on the foliage, you have very likely just found aphids, as well. Treat only when high numbers of aphids are severely infesting plants, populations are building and the margins of terminal leaves are drooping.
Minnesota: Corn, Soybean Weed Management Tour, Rochester, July 3
Weed management has changed dramatically in recent years with herbicide resistant weeds, new herbicide technologies and challenging weather conditions. How do we develop resilient strategies to deal with all of the different challenges? The 2018 Corn and Soybean Weed Management Tour will highlight ongoing research that addresses these challenges and introduces new ideas for crop producers and Ag Professionals on Tuesday, July 3.
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