Summer weather returned to Kentucky and Tennessee this past week as hazy, hot, humid conditions prevailed. ...
The Virginia corn crop has reached the stage where it’s suffering badly from dry weather. ...
By Tom Nordlie
University of Florida
Florida fruit and vegetable farmers who use mulch to discourage nutsedge may find a bigger payoff if they bet on black — black plastic mulch, that is....
Corn harvest got under way in Alabama during the week ending July 20, with other producers side-dressing cotton, completing herbicide, insecticide and PGR applications to cotton, making fungicide and herbicide applications to peanuts, and treating some soybean fields with fungicides to battle disease....
U.S. all flue-cured tobacco production is forecast at 503 million pounds, down less than 1 percent from the 2007 crop but 13 percent above two years ago. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Like with traditional row crops, vegetable and melon net returns are being eroded by rapidly escalating input prices, particularly for fuel and fertilizer, according to USDA’s latest Vegetable and Melons outlook report....
This year, Ricky Fulk and his family planted 32 acres of vegetables on black plastic with drip irrigation. ...
Kentucky growers were winding down their planting of double-crop soybeans last week, and with recent rains, germination was taking place rapidly....
South Carolina soybeans may have been saved by rainfall this past week, but the crop isn’t out of the woods yet as more moisture will be needed before maturity. ...
It varied drastically, but recent rainfall in Alabama might have saved the corn crop in some counties, while other areas got little relief....
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