It's Time To Prepare For Planting
Uncertain irrigation water supply situations will likely again result in a range of strategies for pre-plant and early season irrigations, and these will impact irrigation scheduling and strategies for the rest of the growing season.
This "set-up" to the growing season could again make decisions on which fields to plant or fallow, timing of pre-plant irrigations and first post-planting irrigation more difficult. With all of the changes in cropping patterns of the past couple of years, with expansion and contraction of alfalfa, safflower, cotton and small grains acreage, it may be useful to develop some new ideas about where cotton could fit into your production plans.
ALABAMA
Charles Burmester
burmech@auburn.edu
Glyphosate-resistant weeds have been a very hot topic at most meetings so far this season. In Alabama, glyphosate-resistant horseweed has been a problem for several years, and farmers have normally been able to control this weed by adding a 2,4-D or a dicamba product to burn-down sprays at least 21 days before planting. The resistant
horseweed, however, continues to change, and the pest is now emerging in many fields throughout the growing season. I pulled many horseweed plants in fields as I looked at cotton last summer and fall.
source : cottonfarming
Uncertain irrigation water supply situations will likely again result in a range of strategies for pre-plant and early season irrigations, and these will impact irrigation scheduling and strategies for the rest of the growing season.
This "set-up" to the growing season could again make decisions on which fields to plant or fallow, timing of pre-plant irrigations and first post-planting irrigation more difficult. With all of the changes in cropping patterns of the past couple of years, with expansion and contraction of alfalfa, safflower, cotton and small grains acreage, it may be useful to develop some new ideas about where cotton could fit into your production plans.
ALABAMA
Charles Burmester
burmech@auburn.edu
Glyphosate-resistant weeds have been a very hot topic at most meetings so far this season. In Alabama, glyphosate-resistant horseweed has been a problem for several years, and farmers have normally been able to control this weed by adding a 2,4-D or a dicamba product to burn-down sprays at least 21 days before planting. The resistant
horseweed, however, continues to change, and the pest is now emerging in many fields throughout the growing season. I pulled many horseweed plants in fields as I looked at cotton last summer and fall.
source : cottonfarming
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