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North Carolina Field Reports: Flooding, Some Harvest Underway
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending October 14, 2018. County Extension Comments Joey Knight – Caswell County Extension With Hurricane Michael dropping approximately 10-11 inches of rain here […]
North Carolina Sweet Potatoes: Impacts of Guava Root Knot Nematode Quarantine
Meloidogyne enterolobii Internal Quarantine from NCDA On Friday, October 5, 2018, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services released a press statement outlining a quarantine for the guava root […]
Tennessee Field Reports: Farmers Return to Fields
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending October 7, 2018. County Extension Comments Jeff Via, Fayette County The farmers in Fayette County had a good week of harvest for […]
North Carolina Field Reports: Salvaging Fields from Florence
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending October 7, 2018. Extension County Comments Mike Carroll – Carteret County Extension Attempting to salvage corn with poor to fair results. Evaluation […]
North Carolina Field Reports: More Rains, Assessing Florence Damage
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending September 23, 2018. County Extension Comments Stanley Holloway – Yancey County Extension The remnants of Hurricane Florence deposited some significant rainfall to […]
North Carolina Crops: Florence Hit at Worst Possible Time, Pre-Harvest – DTN
With rainfall totals in parts of North Carolina reaching as much as 36 inches since Thursday due to Hurricane Florence, a big chunk of rural North Carolina was largely marooned […]
Virginia Field Reports: Wet Week Followed by Florence Remnants
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending September 16, 2018. REPORTER COMMENTS BY COUNTY – Comments are based on remarks made by extension agents, farmers, commodity specialists, and other […]
North Carolina Field Reports: Hurricane Florence – Damage Assessments Underway
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending September 16, 2018. County Extension Comments Charles Mitchell – Franklin County Extension Hurricane Florence dropped about 6 inches of rain over the […]
Tennessee Field Reports: Corn Harvest Continues at Rapid Pace
Crop Progress and Condition for the Week Ending September 16, 2018. County Agent Comments Kenny Herndon, Carroll County Corn harvest is in full swing. Some notable variances in yield within […]
Tobacco: How to Handle the Hurricane
With Florence bearing down, many of the flue-cured growers along the Atlantic Coast faced intense weather conditions with significant tobacco still in the field. Georgia might dodge the bullet since the […]
