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Alabama

Arkansas

Arkansas Rice: Emergency Exemption Approved for AV-1011 Bird Repellent5-20

Arkansas Soybeans: Start Clean When Planting into Emerging Weeds5-17

Arkansas Rice: Diseases May Be a Concern in Late Planted Fields5-16

  

 

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BASF releases latest Clearfield Rice Stewardship guidelines.

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Midsouth farmers make headlong progress as weather breaks.

Rice going to flood in parts of Midsouth...finally.

Texas and coastal Louisiana crops shaping up.

Pre-Flood Advisory, 2013:

Fine-turning pre-flood nitrogen rates: latest info.

Late planting: compensating.

Replanting considerations for 2013.

Herbicides: wait a little while?

 

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California

California Almonds: Bugs, Mites And Potential For A Quick Crop5-20

California Almonds: Water Infiltration — Some Causes, Solutions5-19

California: Scattered Pest Treatments In Cotton5-18

California Cotton: Time to Strip Alfalfa for Lygus Management5-17

AgFax Almond Review: Shipments Remain Strong with Short Supplies5-17

California: 2013 No-till Cotton Production Field Day, Dos Palos, May 305-17

Florida

Florida Corn: Don’t Overspend Expecting 300 BPA5-16

Georgia

Georgia: Shooting Awareness Fun and Education Event5-20

Georgia: Commercial Vegetables Growing Well5-20

Georgia: Growers Busy Watering Corn5-20

Illinois

Illinois: Corn Planting Now In Full Swing5-20

Illinois: Small-Farm Field Day Set June 15 in Dawson5-20

Indiana

Indiana: Control of Dandelion in No-till Corn and Soybean5-17

Iowa

Iowa: Yearly Data For Corn For Planting Dates And Yield5-16

Kansas

Louisiana

Louisiana Corn: Timely First Irrigation is Important5-20

Louisiana Rice: Photos of Newpath Drift on Jazzman-2 Field5-19

Louisiana Cattle Market: Hay Stocks at Record Low5-17

Louisiana Rice: Why Disease Are More Severe Some Years Than Others5-17

 

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Mississippi

Flint On Crops: Late Planting Changes Everything5-20

Mississippi: Kudzu Bug Finds Increasing5-17

Mississippi Soybeans: Are Insecticides Treatments Worth the Price When Planting Late5-17

Mississippi Cotton: Managing for Earliness5-17

Mississippi: Small Grains and Soybeans Market News5-17

Mississippi: Keep Watchout for Thrips in Cotton and Peanuts5-17

Mississippi Rice: Planting Way Behind and Farmers Replanting5-17

Mississippi: Seeding Rates and other Grain Sorghum Planting Tips5-17

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Missouri

Nebraska

Nebraska: Extension Field Reports After ‘Fast and Furious’ Planting5-18

Nebraska Wheat: Continue Scouting Fields for Disease Development5-17

North Carolina

Ohio

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Tennessee: UT Weed Tour Coming June 205-20

Tennessee Wheat: Symptoms of Scab May be Visible5-20

Tennessee Cotton: Considerations When Switching to Earlier Varieties5-17

Tennessee: Cotton Planting Forecast, May 20-245-17

Tennessee: Controlling Large Horseweed and Ryegrass at the 11th Hour5-17

Texas

Texas: Rainfall And Warmer Temperatures Helped Most Of The State5-20

Texas: Plains Cotton Growers Produced 2.93M Upland Bales5-17

Texas Tech Finds Environmental Application For Low-Grade Cotton5-16

Texas Grain Sorghum: Early Fields Reaching Midge Scouting Period5-15

Virginia

Virginia Cotton: Management Considerations for Later Planting Dates5-20

Virginia Cotton: Planting Progress Close to Perfect5-17

Sunbelt Ag News

    Southwest Cotton Planting Picks Up, Still Dry, Fleahoppers Arrive – AgFax5-21

    Corn: Planted By Farmers, Helped By Technology5-21

    AgFax Cotton Review: Futures Expected to Continue in Recent Ranges; Australia Finishing Strong Harvest5-21

    Doane Cotton Close: Ahead of Schedule Planting5-21

    DTN Cotton Close: Finishes Sharply Lower5-21

    AFB Rice Close: Minimal Gains Were Made5-21

    AFB Cotton Close: Under Pressure5-21

    AFB Grain-Soybean Close: Wheat And Soybeans Lower, Corn Pressured,5-21

    Peanuts: Argentine Crop Hit By Frost5-21

    USDA National Peanut Prices5-21

    How To Become A Farmer 1015-21

    Soybeans: The Right Time To Plant?5-21

    How Low Interest Rates Are In Line With Farmland Prices5-21

    DTN Grain Close: Big Jump in Corn Planting Pressures Markets5-21

    AgFax Rice Review: U.S. Production, Exports Down; Japanese Rice Returns to Evacuation Zone5-21

    DTN Fertilizer Trends: 6 of 8 See Slight Price Drop5-21

    DTN Livestock Midday: Buyer Support Develops Across Complex5-21

    New Publication Can Help with Fungicide Decisions5-21

    Louisiana: Crop Production Field Day Set June 19 in St. Joseph5-21

    DTN Grain Midday: Mixed with Old-Crop Beans Higher5-21

    DTN Cotton Open: Extends Prior-Day Losses5-21

    Roberts Commodity Report: USDA Corn Planting Data Questionable5-21

    DTN Livestock Open: Cattle Futures to Start Higher5-21

    DTN Grain Open: Corn, Wheat Take Plunge5-21

    Keith Good: Corn Farmers Seed Record 42M Acres in 7-Day Stretch5-21

    Taiwan: Working Out Grading Issues on U.S.-Taiwan Rice Trade5-20

    Weekly Crop Progress: Corn Planting Jumps 43% in 1 Week5-20

    Rice Progress: Crop 80% Planted, 60% Emerged5-20

    Texas: Pecos River Watershed Protection Plan Meetings, June 4-55-20

    Welch on Wheat: Crop Condition Drops, but Still Higher Than 20115-20

    Genetically-Engineered Alfalfa Can Be Grown Once Again5-20

    U.S. Aquifers Being Drained at Accelerated Rate, Study Says5-20

    USDA Faces Deadline to Modify Country of Origin Labels5-20

    Cotton: Where Did Your Denim Jeans Come From?5-20

    Good on Grain: Corn, Soybean Prices Retracing 2012 Drought Rally5-20

    Flint On Crops: Late Planting Changes Everything5-20

    USDA Foreign Catfish Program to Crank Up by Year’s End5-20

    Rice Market: Southern Crop 4 Weeks Behind in Some Locations5-18

    New Focus on Fertilizer Safety, Storage Regulations5-17

    DTN Livestock Close: Futures End Week with Sharp Losses5-17

    Florida: Perennial Peanut Producer’s Field Day, June 15-17

    Cleveland on Cotton: U.S. Plantings Mostly in Southwest, Drought Continues5-17

    Wheat Price Highlights: Nearby Contracts Down on Technical Selling5-17

    Farm Bill: Serious Debate Expected On The Floor5-17

    Corn Planting To Decrease And Soybean to Increase5-17

    Mississippi: Entire State Suffering Historic Planting Delays5-17

    USDA: Peanut Price Highlights5-17

    Energy: Domestic Ethanol Production Starts to Grow Again5-17

    Propane Inventories Increase5-17

    Gasoline Prices Climb 7 Cents5-17

    Diesel Prices Rise 2 Cents5-17

    Texas: Plains Cotton Growers Produced 2.93M Upland Bales5-17

    Virginia: Early-Summer Row Crops Tour, Suffolk, June 65-17

    North Carolina: Grain Sorghum Shows Economic Advantage In Doublecrop Production5-16

    EPA Budget Examined Amid Calls for More Transparency5-16

    ELS Cotton Competitive Payment Rate 05-16

    Chumrau on Wheat: May WASDE Report Provides First Glimpse of New Marketing Year5-16

    Farming With Social Media – It’s Not a Choice5-16

    Rice Sales Increase, Exports Decrease5-16

    USDA Designates 6 Counties in Texas as Natural Disaster Areas5-16

    Sunbelt Ag Events

     

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