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Kansas: Wheat Producers Should Watch Fields Closely for Insects 5/8

Memphis-based foundation focuses on bio-based economic growth MCA 5/8

Louisiana: Wheat Growing Conditions Good, LSU Personnel Say 5/8

ICGA Opposes Waiving the Renewable Fuels Standard 5/8

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Alaron Grains and Oilseeds: Going to be concern over further planting delays 5/7

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WHEAT RESOURCES:

Recommendations and special advisories for the 2007-08 wheat crop. Updated: 5-8.

ALABAMA:

Sidedressing Corn, 5-7, Yield of corn is absolutely dependent upon how much N it takes up.|

Alabama Over-view of the 2007 Plant Diseases and Insects, 5-7.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

ARKANSAS:

Arkansas Cotton Update, 5-8, Cotton Status, Playing Catch-Up; Market Update; Nitrogen Fertilization of Cotton.| 

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Arkansas Bi-Weekly Market, 5-2  Is the rice market topping out?; cotton supplies keep cap on price; corn planting delays may boost market; soybeans trend lower._

Arkansas Rice, 5-1, Rice planting a couple weeks behind; rice DD50 program; residual herbicide options; recommended planting dates; seeding rates._

Corn And Sorghum News, 5-30. Late planting of corn and grain sorghum this year; tips for planting corn in May._

Cotton Planting Forecast, 4-28, for April 29 through May 2, 2008._


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Planting and crop reports from Texas to Missouri; yield and demo trials; seed return policy reminder; field day set for June 19 at Texas HQ in Alvin.

Early Season Newsletter, April 25


CALIFORNIA:

California: From the Vine, May/June, Cultural Practices for Scarlet Royal.|

FLORIDA:

Crop Report, 5-5.|

GEORGIA:

Georgia Seminole Crop E – News, 5-7, It’s getting dry in a hurry.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Soy Nuggets, 5-2, Update on soy rust; planting time; twin row planting._

Cotton Marketing News, 4-28, Market Update; Energy Impacts, Long-Term; Farm Bill Update._

ILLINOIS:

The Bulletin, 5-9, Time to Crank Up the Vigilance for Armyworms; Watch for Other Insect Pests of Wheat, Too; Late Corn Planting—How Will Some Key Insects Respond?; Folicur Fungicide Registered for Use on Wheat in Illinois; Corn and Soybean Planting: Issues Remain; Regional Reports.|

INDIANA:

Indiana: The Benefits of Preemergence Herbicides in Roundup Ready Soybean

Pest & Crop Report, 5-9, Low Black Cutworm Moth Catches, Armyworm Another Matter; New Fungicide Registrations for Wheat; Germination Events in Corn; The Emergence Process in Corn.|

Indiana: Shattercane Interference and Nitrogen Accumulation in Roundup Ready Corn, 5-6.|

Nitrogen Accumulation by Annual Grass weeds in Corn, 5-2._

Time to assess rapidly developing wheat, 4-25._

IOWA:

Iowa Integrated Crop Management News, 5-6, Field Testing of N-Hibit™ Seed Treatment in Iowa.|


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KENTUCKY:

Kentucky: Recent Changes in the Wheat and Barley Foliar Fungicide Status Quo, 5-8.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Kentucky Wheat Science News, 5-5, Armyworm Caterpillars Reported; Moth Capture Declines in Princeton But Increase in Lexington!; Changes in the Wheat Foliar Fungicide Status Quo; 2008 University of Kentucky Wheat Field Day.|

Armyworms in Wheat, 5-5, from Kentucky Pest News.|

Armyworms in Corn?, 5-5, from Kentucky Pest News.|

LOUISIANA:

Louisiana Cotton Bulletin, 5-6, Cotton off to a Cool, Slow Start; Thrips Control.|

Louisiana Jeff Davis Rice Talk, May, Crop Update; Mid-Season Weed Control; Newpath, Glyphosate Drifts; Fertilization; Rice Insecticide Recommendations.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Louisiana Rice Field Notes, 5-5, Replanting at this late date could cost more than taking a hit in yield which may or may not happen.|

Ag Report, (E-Central La.), 5-4. Tan spot in wheat; slugs; false chinch bugs in milo; thrips building on soybeans; rainfall battering cotton.|

Soybean and Feed Grain Review, 5-2. Slug and saltmarsh caterpillar damage; control of RR soybeans in a replant situation._

Rice Research Station News, 5-1, Salvage treatments and controlling late emerging weeds in rice; potential for LA2125; levee renovation in crawfish aquaculture; fungicide use for multiple diseases._

Soybean and Feed Grain Review, May, Wheat/Soybean Double-Crop Publication._

MISSISSIPPI:

Mississippi: Current Issues in MS Soybean Production, 5-8, What population is too low and calculating plant populations.|

MSU Grain Crops Update, 5-7, Wheat Freeze Injury and Corn Suggestions.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Field Notes (Central Miss.), 5-4, More challenges for farmers in central Mississippi.|

Rice Update, 5-2, Rice emergence less than ideal so far._

Crop Situation, 4-30, Planting Report, 2008 Insect Control Guides; rust in wheat fields bordering newly planted corn not a cause for alarm; 2008 possibly last year of federally funded soybean rust sentinel monitoring program; chinch bugs in seedling corn; wet, cool conditions favorable for slugs; cotton planting forecast; early season weed control in cotton; market briefs._

Cotton Planting Forecast, 4-30, With the exception of some fields with lighter soils, most field operations are on hold._


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MISSOURI:

Integrated Pest and Crop Management, 5-8, Scouting for Soybean Rust In Missouri; White Grub Larvae Numerous in Many Crop Fields; Pest Update: Common Ragweed; Fusarium Head Blight or Scab of Wheat; Update on Wheat Diseases and Fungicides.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

NORTH CAROLINA:

North Carolina Head Scab Alert, 5-7, Scab forecasting models predict elevated scab risk for wheat that flowered between about April 24 and May 1 in large areas of eastern part of state.|

Crop Report, 5-6.|

North Carolina Cotton Planting Forecast, 5-5.|

North Carolina Pest News, 5-2, Thrips Management in Cotton._

Applying Fungicides At Today’s High Wheat Prices, 4-30, Do higher wheat prices make regular fungicide application to wheat crop economical?_

OHIO:

Ohio C.O.R.N. Newsletter, 5-6, Diagnosing Emergence Problems in Corn; Slugs and Field Crops; Nitrogen Accumulation by Annual Grass Weeds in Corn; Wheat Scab Risk Prediction 2008; More Fungicides Registered for The Suppression of Head Scab in Wheat; Weather Update.|

OKLAHOMA:

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Beware Cold Chilling Injury in Cotton, 5-2.

SOUTH CAROLINA:

Crop Report, 5-5.|

TENNESSEE:

Tennessee IPM Newsletter, 5-9, Cotton planting behind due to cool temperatures, wet fields, and more corn being planted; Glyphosate Resistant Horseweed Management; Ryegrass Control in Corn; no reports of significant true armyworm infestations in wheat; thrips in cotton; Corn and Sorghum Updates.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Conventional wisdom versus learning from history, 5-5, D. Ray, UTenn Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.|

Market Highlights, 5-2, Livestock comments by Emmit L. Rawls and Crop comments by Delton C. Gerloff._

TEXAS:

Crop and Weather Report, 5-7, Most of western parts of state remained drought-stressed, while northern and eastern parts of state saw some relief.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

Texas Rice, April, Biofuels and Feedstock Crops; Rice Breeding and New Cultivars; Rice Crop Update._

VIRGINIA:

Virginia Roberts Market Report, 5-6, If planting doesn’t get going corn acres will be switching to soybean acres.|

Crop Report, 5-5.|

AG Pest Advisory, 5-2, Small grain insects: Winter grain mite; Spring-only aphid; Hessian fly._


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Keith Good's Farm Policy News, 5-9, Farm Bill Conference Agreement Announced, Pres. Bush Promises Veto.|

USDA Grain Transportation Report, 5-8, Wheat Inspections Remain Strong; Ocean Grain Vessel Activity Slumps; High Water Slows Grain Movement on the Mississippi River; High Commodity, Energy, and Transportation Costs Impact Agricultural Trade to Southeast Asia.|

Arkansas Farm Bureau Market Report, 5-8, Covers Major Commodities.|

USA Rice Federation Daily, 5-8, FDA Approves Health Claim for Brown Rice; U.S. Rice Merchants Meet Brazil's Top Importers; Rice Exports Increased Substantially, Sales Gain.|

Riceland Daily Market Review, 5-8.|

Weekly Weather And Crop Bulletin, 5-6, from NASS.|

Weekly Outlook, 5-5, D. Good, Corn production prospects remain uncertain.|

Crop Progress, 5-5, from NASS.|

Nunn Cotton Letter, 5-4. Technically, the cotton market is in shambles.|

Rice Advocate, 5-2. Farm Bill Update: Another Friday Compromise Reached—But Not Completed; Global Price Trends—The Market Miscommunication.|

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Agricultural Prices, 4-30, from NASS._

Peanut Stocks and Processing, 4-30, from NASS._

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