Green Stink Bugs in Non-Podding Soybeans: What to Do?

🕔16:01, 12.Jun 2014

I have had numerous calls recently on green stink bugs in beans that are either vegetative or at R1-R2 stage with no pods. Numbers have ranged from 4-5 to 8-12 per 25 sweeps depending on the field. It is not uncommon to have a field or two on occasion to have threshold numbers of stink bugs before soybeans put on pods, but the number of fields this year being reported is certainly unusual.

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Tarnished Plant Bug Nymphs Showing Up in Pre-Bloom Cotton

Tarnished Plant Bug Nymphs Showing Up in Pre-Bloom Cotton

🕔08:29, 11.Jun 2014

The tarnished plant bug calls have started to come in on small cotton already. In some cases, consultants and growers are finding nymphs on very young cotton with only 1-2 squares. Similarly, some are reporting plant bug flagged terminals in pre-square cotton. We rarely have to spray pre-square cotton for plant bugs, but our threshold is 1 flagged plant per 10 row feet with bugs present. Although tarnished plant bugs are our most important and most consistent pest of cotton in the Delta, we usually don’t start finding nymphs until closer to first flower.

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Armyworms Showing up in Grassy Fields Moving to Soybeans

🕔11:50, 6.Jun 2014

Over the last few days I have started getting calls about fall armyworms showing up in soybeans.  We see some of this every year, and it is primarily related to larvae moving off of a grass host after a Roundup application

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Trap Counts, June 6, 2014

Trap Counts, June 6, 2014

🕔11:27, 6.Jun 2014

Bollworm catches were lower in the Delta this week but steady in Northeast MS. Tobacco budworm catches were negligible in all areas (Table 1). Southwestern corn borer counts were also low throughout the state, so early corn that is now

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The Tassel Shot: When is the Best Time?

🕔10:49, 6.Jun 2014

More and more corn growers are applying various management inputs around tassel stage in order to improve efficiency and corn productivity. This article discusses how crop physiology affects the appropriate timing and crop response.

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Influence of Rainfall on Insecticide Efficacy

🕔13:29, 2.Jun 2014

Every year at some point during the season we seem to hit a rainy spell where it seems to rain at some point every day and we have showers widely scattered across the state. It started raining last Wednesday and we have had some rain everyday since then and it is currently raining in Stoneville right now (Monday morning). With that, the questions start about how long you need to spray before a rain to get acceptable control.

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