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Texas Plains Cotton: Rains Likely to Cause Regrowth Issues Aug 27, 2022
General Status For most of our fields, things are winding down rapidly. For late fields or the minority that are still lush and setting fruit, pest pressure still seems to […]
Kentucky Corn, Soybeans: Insects to Be Looking For Aug 18, 2022
I had believed that major pest insect populations could increase after the rains that occurred during the last week of July and first weeks of August 2022; however, major pest […]
Texas Plains Cotton: Insects Chasing Lushest Crops Following Cooler, Wetter Conditions Aug 13, 2022
General Status It is sad to say that the last 10 days have been some of the wettest / moistest /coolest of the official summer season. Still, I estimate that […]
Alabama: Stink Bugs the Main Concern in Cotton, Caterpillars Moving Into Peanuts Jul 29, 2022
Not much has changed with the bug complex situation over the past 7 days. Some fields are still requiring attention from plant bugs, but we are at the point with […]
Texas Plains Cotton: Dryland Fields Mostly Gone, Pests Quiet but Some Sneaking In Jul 3, 2022
General Status With the fate of most of the borderline failing fields finally determined via insurance, we have been able to focus better on the well being of our surviving […]
Texas Plains Pest Management: Cotton Susceptible to Fleahoppers; Watch for Fall Armyworms Jun 25, 2022
General Status Hot and dry is the theme of the year so far. Early rains gave us quite a bit of hope, but they have not continued the way they […]
Texas LRGV Cotton: Chilli Thrips and Fleahoppers Jun 6, 2022
General Situation Last week on May 24th we received 3-5 inches of rain valley wide with the McCook farmers unfortunately receiving significant hail damage to their row crops in the […]
Texas Plains Cotton: Lygus Remain Most Prominent Pest Aug 30, 2021
General Status Hot and dry week. That is just what the doctor ordered for the late, lush cotton fields that received so much rain last week but not what the […]
North Carolina: Check Small Soybeans for Fall Armyworm Aug 19, 2021
Fall armyworm is a sporadic outbreak pest that doesn’t overwinter in North Carolina. Populations migrate here as early as May, but really crank up as the summer progresses. We often […]
Kentucky Double-Crop Soybeans: Abrupt Appearance of Fall Armyworms Aug 4, 2021
The larval stage of the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a voracious defoliator of many plant species. The FAW is a native pest of the New World; however, it […]
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