SUNBELT AG NEWS
From staff and services
Late-Week Cotton: Why did the market drop?; bollworms take flight in Southeast; late crop complicates wheat planting; even for California, too much heat 7-25
Late-Week Rice: Market up a bit, coastal harvest starts, sort of 7-24
North Carolina: Peanut Disease Forecast 7-25
Peanuts: insect advisories, leaf spot - PeanutFax 7-24
California Cotton: What will the heat do?; lygus building - MiteFax Report 7-25
California Almonds: Spider mite concerns; harvest nears 7-25
Pilgrim's Pride to Idle Two Chicken Processing Facilities in Athens, Alabama, and Athens, Georgia 7-24
Mississippi: Erratic weather has hurt state corn yield potential 7-24
Arkansas: Field Day to Focus on Resistant Pigweed, Insects and Economics 7-24
Closing Livestock: Cattle futures finished mixed 7-24
Closing Rice: Posted Gains Today After Charting Key Reversal Yesterday 7-24
Closing Grain: All Grains Locked in Seasonal Downturns 7-24
Closing Cotton: Market Skids Below Retracement Point 7-24
USDA National Weekly Cotton Review 7-24
Linn Soybean Commentary: Closed Firmer along with other Ag Commodities 7-24
USDA National Weekly Grain Review 7-24
Corn Yields, Frost Concern In Upper Corn Belt 7-24
K. Good's Farm Policy: Climate Legislation; Animal Agriculture; CFTC Issues; Food Safety; and Doha 7-24
Southern Grain: More insect advisories for soybeans, rains helping, corn harvest updates 7-23
Virginia Cotton: Potential Improves Following Rain 7-23
Kansas: K-State´s Shroyer Says Start Early, Stay Vigilant in Controlling Volunteer Wheat 7-23
Arkansas: ‘We haven’t got the boats out yet:’ Farmers, Agents Take Stock Following Heavy Rains 7-23
Brazil Corn Outlook 7-23
Energy: Gas, diesel prices continue to decline 7-23
Rice harvest delayed on coast due to rain, while showers prompt fungicides in Midsouth: RiceFax 7-23
Delta Cotton: More insect pressure and more rain 7-23
Southeast Cotton: More worms, more stink bugs, maybe more rain 7-23
STATE ADVISORIES
Bulletins, newsletters, analysis
ALABAMA:
Alabama Crop Report, 7-20.
ARKANSAS:
Arkansas Cotton Update, 7-25. Plant bugs once again the pest of the week, and building; market retreats - why?; nitrogen prices made a bottom?
Arkansas Rice Newsletter, 7-22. Leaf-tip discoloration: sheath blight or something else?; wet weather and rice disease.
Arkansas Crop Report, 7-20.
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California:
Cotton Field Check, 7-25. Late-fruiting management issues.
Tree And Vine Newsletter, 7-21, Disease Digest: Lower Limb Dieback of Almond; July Leaf Sampling: Sampling Today for 2010’s Fertilizer Budget; Spotted Wing Drosophila.
FLORIDA:
Florida Agronomy Notes, August, Stinkbug damage to corn; Asian Soybean Rust found earlier this year; the value of rotating peanut and cotton with bahia grass.
Florida Crop Report, 7-20.
GEORGIA:
Georgia Worth County Weekly Crop Report, 7-24, Caterpillars abundant in peanut and grain sorghum fields; very low levels of leaf spot in peanuts; stink bug damage under control in cotton.
Georgia Seminole Crop E News, 7-24, Corn harvest begins; compensating for late soybean planting; lots of caterpillars in everything.
Georgia Cotton Pest Management, 7-24, Corn earworm pressure high; fall armyworms reported at low to moderate numbers; aphids still lingering.
Georgia Market Watch, 7-23.
Georgia Crop Report, 7-20.
KENTUCKY:
Kentucky: Controlling Corn Borers, 7-22, Pests and diseases to look for on late planted corn.
Kentucky Pest News, 7-22, Fungicides and stalk quality.
Kentucky Crop Report, 7-20.
LOUISIANA:
Louisiana Cattle Market Update, 7-24.
Louisiana Rice Field Notes, 7-24, Not a great deal of bacterial panicle blight; blackbird damage an increasing problem; sulfur deficiency.
Louisiana Rice Report, 7-23, Reports of Blast and Cercospora and in Jeff Davis and Acadia; farmers wait for rain to stop so they can start harvesting.
Louisiana Crop Report, 7-20.
MISSISSIPPI:
Mississippi Crop Situation, 7-24, Looks like a late cotton crop; nutrient deficiencies; Palmer pigweed getting worse in soybeans; diplodia ear/stalk rot of corn.
Mississippi Crop Report, 7-21.
Mississippi Field Notes, 7-20, Start a fall garden for fun and food.
NORTH CAROLINA:
North Carolina Pest News, 7-24, “Crunch time” for stink bugs on cotton; lesser corn stalk borers on soybeans; be on lookout for southern rust in corn.
oklahoma:
Oklahoma Crop Report, 7-20.
SOUTH CAROLINA:
South Carolina Cotton & Soybean Insect Report, 7-23, Bollworm & Tobacco Budworm; Captures of Bollworm moths have increased.
South Carolina Crop Report, 7-20.
TENNESSEE:
Tennessee Market Highlights, 7-24, Crop market comments by Chuck Danehower; Livestock comments by Emmit L. Rawls.
Controlling E. Coli in Hamburger Requires "Meat ID" Not Animal ID, 7-24, D. Ray, UTenn Agricultural Policy Analysis Center.
Tennessee IPM Newsletter, 7-23, Tips for Use of Foliar Fungicides for Soybean Diseases; Increase of immature plant bugs in many fields.
Tennessee Crop Report, 7-20.
TEXAS:
Texas Crop, Weather, 7-21, Drought-stricken areas, the southern half of the state, high and dry.
Texas Crop Report, 7-20.
VIRGINIA:
Virginia Ag Pest Advisory, 7-24, Low numbers of corn earworm moths this week (averaging less than 2 per night) from reporting stations.
Virginia Crop Report, 7-20.
RELATED MATERIAL:
The Rice Advocate, 7-24, Senate Ag Committee Hearing on Climate Legislation.
Arkansas Farm Bureau Market Report, 7-24, Covers Major Commodities.
USA Rice Federation Daily, 7-24, Farm Service Agency program notice.
Riceland Daily Market Review, 7-24, Timely rains and sunshine help soybean and rice crops.
USDA Peanut Prices, 7-24.
USDA Catfish Production, 7-24.
Commodity Consulting's Cotton A.M., 7-24, Cotton Market is "technically wounded".
USDA Grain Transportation Report, 7-23, Third Consecutive Week of Strong Grain Inspections; New Crop Secondary Rail Bids Indicate Strengthening Transportation Demand.
USDA Catfish Feed Deliveries, 7-21.
USDA Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin, 7-21.
USDA Catfish Processing, 7-20.
USDA Crop Progress, 7-20.
Nunn Cotton Letter, 7-20, Futures trade midweek to highest levels since 10/9/08 with closes Friday highest since early October 2008.
UPCOMING EVENTS
(FD: field day; SS: scout schools)
Oklahoma Ag Technology Field Day July 28, Northwest Tech Center, Fairview.
Mississippi Soybean Grading Clinic, July 29, 9 am, Vicksburg/Warren school district superintendant's office, Vicksburg.
Louisiana Agritourism Road Show, July 30, 10 am, Calhoun Research Station, 321 Hwy. 80 East, Calhoun.
Arkansas Agriculture FD, July 30, 7:30 am, UAPB Agriculture Research Station, Pine Bluff.
Mississippi Soybean Grading Clinic, July 31, 9 am, Delta REC, Capps Entrepreneurial Center, Stoneville.
Texas Beet Short Course, August 3-5, College Station.
Mississippi Soybean Grading Clinic, August 4, 9 am, Tunica RiverPark, Tunica.
Kansas Subsurface Drip Irrigation FD, August 4, 2:30 pm, Northwest Research-Extension Center, Colby.
Arkansas NEREC Crops FD, August 5, 9 am, Keiser.
Georgia: Bioenergy Conference, August 11-13, Tifton.
Louisiana Rural Tourism Conference, August 11-15, Paragon Casino Resort, Marksville, Register at http://srdc.msstate.edu/misslou/.
Arkansas: University of Arkansas Rice FD, August 12, 8 am, Rice REC, Stuttgart.
North Carolina Northeast Ag Expo FD, August 12, 7:30 am, Camden County Extension Center, South Mills.
Texas Wheatheart Wheat Conference, August 13, 8 am, Expo Building, Perryton.
Mississippi Soybean Grading Clinic, August 18, 9 am, North Mississippi REC, Verona.
Georgia Agriculture FD, August 19, 9 am, University of Georgia Southeast Research and Education Center, Midville.
Arkansas Cache River Valley Seed Rice and Soybean Field Day, August 19, Cash.
Florida Peanut FD, August 20, 8 am, call 850-482-9904, Marianna.
Alabama Wiregrass REC All-Crops Field Day, August 21, 8:30 am.
Louisiana Agritourism Road Show, August 20, 1:30 pm, Dean Lee Research Station, 8208 Tom Bowman Drive, Alexandria.
Kansas Southwest REC Field Day, August 27, 620-276-8286 for info, Garden City.
Philippines, World Rice Conference, Oct 27-30, Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu.
Louisiana Dean Lee Research and Extension FD, August 20.
San Antonio International Farm and Ranch Show, October 8-10, Freeman Coliseum, San Antonio Texas.
Texas 21st Annual Plant Protection Assn. Conference "Application of Agricultural Technology and Management for Changing Times", December 2 & 3, Brazos Center, Bryan.
Rice Outlook Conference, Dec. 9-11, New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, La. For more information, contact Jeanette Davis, jdavis@usarice.com.
2010 National Cotton Council Beltwide Cotton Conferences, January 4-7, New Orleans Marriott Hotel and Sheraton New Orleans Hotel.
To list an event, contact Owen Taylor
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