Alabama
Alabama Cotton: Scout Fields Before Making Application Decisions
The crop situation is all over the board in Alabama. Fields in the Gulf Coast region have received rains in something like 30 of the last 37 days, while fields […]
Arkansas
$10Mln Tax Education Effort for Farmers, Ranchers
The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are teaming up to provide taxpayer education to farmers and ranchers. The partnership aims to provide […]
California
California Almonds: Insecticide Options for Navel Orangeworm – A Recent Trial Summary
Navel orangeworm (NOW) is one of the important pests that draws nut crop grower’s attention throughout the season. Although the economic damage may not be significant every year, the unpredictability […]
Georgia
Georgia Pecans: Water Split Is on the Way
This is just a reminder that given the recent rain and the stage the pecans are in, if you have not seen it already, you we will likely be seeing […]
Illinois
Illinois Farm Real Estate Values Increase $1K per Acre for 2022
Each year the National Agricultural Statistics Service of the USDA releases estimated average farm real estate values by state. The estimates are based on surveys of farmers from selected geographical […]
Indiana
Webinar: Indiana Farmland Values Scale New Heights – Aug. 24
Purdue ag economists Todd Kuethe, James Mintert, and Michael Langemeier will host a free webinar to break down the 2022 Purdue Farmland Values Survey results and the USDA’s Land Values report at 1:00 […]
Iowa
Iowa: 3 Upcoming Field Days, Aug. 24, Sept. 8
You are invited to attend the upcoming field days that will be hosted at the outlying Iowa State University Research and Demonstration Farms this fall. These field days will feature […]
Kansas
Kansas: Entomologist Shares Insights on Sorghum Aphids
Though infestations have been minimal, Kansas extension professionals have reported separate incidents of sugarcane aphids in early August. Near Ellsworth, Kan., Midway Extension District agricultural agent Craig Dinkel reported a single […]
Kentucky
Kentucky Soybeans: Japanese Beetles Feeding on Blooms
Japanese beetles, Popillia japonica (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) are native to Asia. This species was first detected in the early 1900s in New Jersey, but now occurs throughout many areas of the United States. […]
Louisiana
Louisiana: Farmers Get Updates at AgCenter ‘Crops School’
Late-afternoon thunderstorms forced the LSU AgCenter’s second annual Agronomic Crops School indoors — but farmers and others who came to the Dean Lee Research and Extension Center for the Aug. […]
Michigan
Michigan Corn: Mid-Season Tar Spot Management Considerations
What is tar spot? Tar spot is a disease of corn that was first found in Michigan in 2016. Tar spot is caused by Phyllachora maydis, a fungus that infects the […]
Minnesota
Chlorpyrifos No Longer Available for Food, Feed Crop Use – Regulation and Disposal
For many years, chlorpyrifos was widely used to manage a variety of insect pests in several important agricultural crops including soybean and sugar beet in Minnesota. However, in August 2021, […]
Mississippi
Mississippi Corn: Tips to Prepare for a Successful Harvest
Corn harvest should ramp up soon as grain matures and dries down to an agreeable moisture for harvest. Corn maturity is generally a bit later than normal, primarily related to […]
Nebraska
Corn Yield Forecasts as of Aug. 2
Simulations of 2022 end-of-season corn yield potential and real-time crop stage were performed on Aug. 2 for 40 locations across the U.S. Corn Belt using the UNL Hybrid-Maize crop model […]
New Mexico
New Mexico: 33 Counties Designated Natural Disaster Areas to Drought
This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. […]
Ohio
Ohio Soybeans: Scouting for Late Season Diseases
Soybean disease levels across the state have been low to moderate so far, but growers should remain vigilant in their scouting efforts. August scouting can guide future variety, fungicide, or […]
Tennessee
Tennessee: Grain Bin Safety Awareness/Rescue Training, Dyersburg, Aug. 20
More and more farmers are looking to use on-farm grain storage to have the ability to produce more corn and take advantage of grain market price variations. While on-farm storage […]
Texas
Texas: Randall County Ag Day and Crops Tour, Canyon, Aug. 30
The 45th annual Randall County Ag Day and Crops Tour, hosted by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, is set for Aug. 30 at the Kuhlman Extension Center, 200 N. Brown […]
Virginia
Virginia Peanuts: Be on Lookout for Sclerotinia Blight
The system that brought rain on August 10th seems to have broken our streak of hot weather for Virginia’s peanut growing region. Dailey high’s in the 80s with lows in […]
