Mississippi Crop Situation

There have been a lot of phone calls and text messages over the past few weeks about lack of nodulation in soybean. Most likely, there are more issues this year with high soybean acres, many of which have historically been cotton and corn ground that was planted to soybean due to market forecasts. Typically, our recommendation is that if a field has not been in soybean in the...

This week’s bollworm moth catches were similar to last week, and below normal for this time of year. Tobacco budworm moth catches were up a little this week, but still at at or below normal catches for this time of year.

Abundant recent rainfall has suspended irrigation needs relative to normal, considering corn is now tasseling across much of the state. Accordingly, corn water demand will be high when soil moisture dries enough for us to make decisions to commence irrigation. This article will address how various factors affect corn irrigation management.

Since corn’s water demand and...