Tweets From the Field

Alabama

Alabama: Planting Delayed by Wet Conditions
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. EXTENSION/FSA COMMENTS: General: The week’s average mean temperatures ranged [...]

Arkansas

Arkansas: Corn Planting Nearly Done, Rice at 75%, Cotton Just Over 50%
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. General On average, farmers had 5.0 days suitable for [...]

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

California

AgFax Almond Review: Australian Breeding Program Receives $2M; Water Infiltration Issues
5-21
Production A University of Adelaide press release on Phys.org reports that the Australian Almond Breeding program recently received $2.35 million [...]

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: Planting Continues, Soybeans Get Started
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. Weather Summary: According to Florida’s Automated Weather Network (FAWN), [...]

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

Georgia

Georgia: Planting Runs Full Steam Ahead but Some Areas Rained Out
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. General: According to the National Agriculture Statistics Service’s Georgia [...]

Georgia: Shooting Awareness Fun and Education Event5-20

Georgia: Commercial Vegetables Growing Well5-20

Georgia: Growers Busy Watering Corn5-20

Illinois

Illinois Wheat: Cereal Leaf Beetles, Aphids Reported in South
5-21
Kevin Black, Insect and Plant Disease Technical Manager, Growmark, Inc., recently reported that cereal leaf beetles can be found in [...]

Illinois: Corn Planting Now In Full Swing5-20

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

Indiana

Indiana: Major Corn And Soybean Acreage Has Been Planted
5-20
  Warm, sunny days during the week allowed farmers to make good progress planting both corn and soybeans, according to [...]

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

Iowa

Iowa Corn: Black Cutworm Scouting Advisory
5-20
We asked black cutworm monitoring participants to start watching traps at the beginning of April. The first moth was recorded [...]

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

Kansas

Kansas: Storms Bring Hail, Wind Damage in North, South Makes Good Planting Progress
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. For the week ending May 19, 2013, clear skies [...]

Louisiana

Louisiana: Crop Production Field Day Set June 19 in St. Joseph
5-21
Research at the LSU AgCenter Northeast Research Station on corn, cotton and soybeans will be featured at the pest management [...]

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

Mississippi

Mississippi: More Field Work And Dry Weather
5-20
  According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Mississippi, there were 4.5 days suitable for fieldwork for the week [...]

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

Missouri

Missouri: Strong Planting Progress but Still Behind Schedule
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. Agricultural Summary Farmers took advantage of the warm dry [...]

Nebraska

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

Nebraska Wheat: Continue Scouting Fields for Disease Development5-17

North Carolina

Roberts Commodity Report: USDA Corn Planting Data Questionable
5-21
My field crops tour of the Northern U.S. Plains started this week. North Carolina corn looks like it is all [...]

Ohio

Ohio Corn: Time to Troubleshoot Emergence Problems
5-21
According to the USDA/NASS for the week ending May 19, corn was 74 percent planted, which was 19 percent behind [...]

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Wheat: Taking Technology to the Wheat Fields
5-17
Agriculture is more than keeping up with the times of technology. Smartphones have become a part of everyday life for [...]

South Carolina

South Carolina: Corn Planting Winding Down, Other Crops Make Solid Progress
5-20
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending May 19, 2013. GENERAL A drier week allowed farmers to make progress [...]

Tennessee

Tennessee: Favorable Weather Conditions Finally Arrived
5-20
Favorable weather conditions finally arrived last week as farmers made the most of the four and a half days of [...]

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: Rains Reset The Drought Button
5-21
Though recent storms promised to reset the drought button for a large part of East Texas, the western half of [...]

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: Diverse Temperatures, But No Frost Damage
5-20
Diverse temperatures were reported for the Commonwealth. Parts of northern Virginia and counties surrounding the Blue Ridge reported frost during [...]

Virginia Cotton: Management Considerations for Later Planting Dates5-20

Virginia Cotton: Planting Progress Close to Perfect5-17