North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Lee Boyd, Boyle 5/27/2024 – Rice: Drifts were a major problem this year especially when Sencor was involved. Rice never wants to grow out of Sencor, best to flood up and push rice, then drain it back down and reflood again. Another issue with drifts is the […]
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Jim Arrington, Senatobia 5/24/2024 – Cotton: Wet, wet, wet! The moisture has met. We need a break to finish planting. It’s getting late quick. I have some that’s just up to some with 5 true leaves. Thrips have not been a big problem this year. Most has
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North Delta South Delta East MS South MS James Bowen, Boyle8/10/2024 – Rice – is anywhere from been drained for a week to 10 days to boot split. About 90% ofthe rice I check has been drained. Stink bugs were bad in spots. Most farmers tried the Tenchu andwere pleased. Most of the crop looks
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Andy Tonos, Greenville8/8/2024 – Rice – What little rice I have this year was planted extremely late and it’s just now at mid-season. As you can expect with late rice and dry conditions weed control is not as good as early rice. Soybeans – Anywhere from R2 to being desiccated
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Justin George, Merigold8/3/2024 – Rice: began draining early rice July 29th… a lot more will get drained 8/5. This is theearliest I think we’ve ever drained. About 1/2 of my rice acres will be drained by 8/9.Stinkbugs haven’t been bad for me. Hard to find, see, or
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Greg Williams, Eads, Tennessee8/1/2024 – Early cotton ranges from 17-22 nodes and 3-5 NAWF. The later planted and replantsrange 13-16 nodes. Still a ways to go! Insect pressure has been on the light side this year. Plant bugsand stink bugs have increased over the past 2 weeks.
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Tucker Miller, Drew7/26/2024 – Cotton — NAWF 2 to NAWF 5. Have some small acreage of replant just starting tobloom. Mites have blown up and most of my acres have had miticide in the last two weeks. Plantbugs have been lighter, getting 10 days out of most
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Tim Richards, Yazoo City7/22/2024 – Cotton ranges from 12th node to 21 nodes with April planted cotton at cutout but the bulkis at NAWF 6-8. We’ve had some pretty good Plant Bug pressure in spots coinciding with corn earlierthen adjacent to soybeans that were post bloom. We’ve
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Justin George, Merigold7/11/2024 – Rice: first 1/2 of the crop is just beginning to head. Very little disease, yet fungicide isgoing out for sheath blight and Kernal smut prevention, especially in DynaGro and CL varietiesRice Stinkbugs in first heading areas. Planning on Tenchu, wish we had Endigo
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Justin George, Merigold7/11/2024 – Rice: first 1/2 of the crop is just beginning to head. Very little disease, yet fungicide isgoing out for sheath blight and Kernal smut prevention, especially in DynaGro and CL varietiesRice Stinkbugs in first heading areas. Planning on Tenchu, wish we had Endigo
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Charlie Craig, Friars Point7/8/2024 – Hope everyone had a safe and happy 4 th of July long weekend. I would miss my guess if Ididn’t bet that most consultants were working at least part of that time.Things have been reasonably quiet insect wise so far. At this
North Delta South Delta East MS South MS Ed Whatley, Clarksdale 6/20/2024 – Cotton – Plants bugs have gone from 0-60 in 10 seconds in some areas. The season started off slow for plant bugs. Plant bugs have drastically changed in the areas with no rain and have cotton mixed with grain crops. We just