A warm winter, an easy fall planting season and early-maturing varieties have combined to speed wheat crops toward maturity and left the grain vulnerable to freeze damage.
On Jan. 30, stripe rust was found in Mississippi’s Bolivar County, usually one of the state’s top wheat counties. The discovery followed a similar find in northeast Arkansas, days earlier....More
According to a recent survey of over 250 ryegrass samples herbicide, resistance is on the rise in Arkansas ryegrass populations. This survey involved both random samples and samples taken from fields where either burndown or post-applied wheat herbicides had failed. The survey also included samples from industrial sites, roadsides and commercially available seed....More
On January 20, 2012, Richard Klerk, county Extension agent in northeast Arkansas’ Cross County, found stripe rust in a field of an experimental wheat variety that was planted Oct. 6....More
I recommend that ryegrass control programs for wheat begin in the fall, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen that way. A few herbicides will still control larger ryegrass in the spring if done right....More
You may come to the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show for a chance to win a Labrador puppy … or for mouth-watering Corky’s barbecue … or you may attend for a chance at one of several cash prizes … or still, you may be one of approximately 20,000 attendees at the South’s premier farm show because it’s a once-a-year opportunity you get to connect with friends and family you may not otherwise see....More
Tensions with Iran and higher costs for seed, fertilizer and other items will make the 2012 crop more expensive to grow than last year’s, said Scott Stiles, Extension economist for the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture....More
Take it from a guy who helps feed the world: There's nothing quite like surveying a field comprising a healthy new crop breed your research team helped create and recalling, years earlier, "when you held all the seed of it in the palm of your hand." ...More
Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries – Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan – and Australia are exporting more wheat than was projected last May. They are doing this by selling wheat below U.S. wheat export prices. United States wheat exports are less than projected in May 2011....More
