Mississippi Crop Situation Podcast Mississippi State Extension

Erick Larson visited the Crops Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville on a rainy day to visit with Jason Bond and Tom Allen about corn fertilization and irrigation.  They discussed top dress vs. side dress nitrogen fertilizer applications, when to apply a tassel nitrogen fertilizer application, and the appropriate strategy for corn irrigation. 
 
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Don and Tyler are back in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio for a second week in a row.  Tyler takes the lead to talk about thrips on cotton.  Pressure is heavy but the weather has been good for cotton in most areas.  They cover thrips pressure, ThryvOn performance, and finish with a discussion about the future of acephate as an insecticide option in row crops. 
 
This episode and our archives are available here: http://extension.msstate.edu/shows/mississippi-crop-situation

Don and Tyler sat down in the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio with Jason and Tom to talk about rice stink bugs.  Even though it’s only May and rice stink bugs are a late-season pest of rice, this discussion is important to work plans for the season.  Tenchu has been a major insecticide for control of rice stink bugs; however, a Section 18 has been requested and granted for Endigo in recent years.  For 2024, the Section 18 request will only be submitted after supplies of Tenchu are exhausted.  Contact Don for more information and how to make plans for late-season rice management. 
 

From the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville, Jason Bond and Tom Allen talk in depth about paraquat drift on corn and rice in Mississippi.  Mississippi State has done extensive work addressing crop management decisions following cases of off-target movement of paraquat in corn and rice.  Jason and Tom summarize some of this work and talk about the weather influences of 2024 on off-target herbicide movement. 

Brian Pieralisi visited the Crop Doctors’ Podcast studio in Stoneville last week to discuss the Mississippi cotton crop.  Favorable weather has come in short stints, but it has allowed a good deal of Mississippi’s cotton acres to be planted recently.  Brian, Jason, and Tom discuss some new traits, herbicide availability, nematodes and other early-season issues. 
 

Jason did a recent episode of the Weeds AR Wild Podcast with Bob Scott from the University of Arkansas Systems Division of Agriculture and Tyler Hydrick, a crop consultant from Jonesboro, AR.  They discuss ryegrass management, focusing on herbicide treatments, but also on some cultural practices too.  The episode is really not crop specific, but it does contain some information tailored to rice.