Special Series: What’s In Store for the 2013 Crop Season?
Over the coming weeks, Southern Farm Network will explore some different factors most likely to influence the 2013 crop season in North and South Carolina. Hear from industry experts as well as local farmers and producers on four key topics:
1) Weather patterns
2) Double-cropping options
3) Pests
4) Emerging management practices
This Weeks Topic:
New Management Practices
Planning for Summer Delivery on Center Pivots
Variable Rate Irrigation Increases Water Utilization and Decreases Costs
IPad App Provides Real-Time Data To Improve Planting Performance
Pests
Boll Weevil Eradication Effort Began in North Carolina
Management Plan Crucial when fighting Resistant Weeds
Kudzu Bugs Appearing in the Carolinas
Stripe Rust Arrives in North Carolina: Wheat Crop Alert!
Additional Information on Stripe Rust Fungicides, Other Diseases, & Cereal Leaf Beetle
Weed Free NC Campaign on a Roll
VA Dept of Ag: April Is Invasive Plant, Pest And Disease Awareness Month
Increased Double-Cropping
Early Harvest of Cool-season Crops Opens Up Double Cropping Possiblities
Crops to Double – Crop with Wheat are Changing
Blacklands Farmers Harvest Five Crops in Two Years on Same Land
The Weather: Cold, Wet, Hot, Dry?
Sandhills Peaches Fazed by mid-March Freeze
2013 NC Apple Crop in Good Shape Thus Far
Weather Southeastern Farmers Can Look Forward to This Growing Season
Midwestern Drought Continues—Higher Commodity Prices Could, Too
NC Strawberries Bearing Up to Cold Just Fine
Southeastern Wheat Crop Far From Disaster