by Isaac Esquivel | May 26, 2023
We are now a few weeks into the cotton and peanut season, with some farmers having already planted their crops. Others are currently in the process of planting, and some are yet to begin behind small grains. While recent rain has caused setbacks for a few, it has also...
by Doug Mayo | May 26, 2023
This week’s featured video was published by Reuters News Service to share the story of innovative farmers in Ukraine. Russian troops mined farm fields, so Oleksandr Kryvtsov used armor from damaged and abandoned Russian tanks to build a mine remover attachment...
by Nicholas Dufault | May 19, 2023
Blights, spots and rusts; oh my! It is getting to that time of year when we start to see diseases showing up in corn and begin to wonder if we should spray a fungicide or not. Southern rust is an explosive and damaging corn disease in which fungicide applications can...
by external | May 19, 2023
Don Shurley, UGA Professor Emeritus of Cotton Economics Since plummeting to the low 70’s last Fall, new crop December 23 futures have been on a roller-coaster, up then down then up again to near 86 cents by the end of January. December 23 futures have since teetered...
by external | May 19, 2023
Scott Graham and Ron Smith, Alabama Cotton Entomology Specialists The Alabama Cooperative Extension System began conducting Cotton Scouting Schools in 1959. Historically, these events were done on the main campus, at Auburn University, over the course of several days....
by Doug Mayo | May 19, 2023
This week’s featured video was published by Farm Innovations to share the story of the Guardian SC1, which is an autonomous drone for crop spraying. The Guardian SC1 is a large, 12′ x 12′ fully electric drone that uses GPS guidance to spray with a...
