Ag Fax
Laykyn Rainbolt, Contributing Editor
Katie Humphreys, Editor
Ernst Undesser, Editor
A lot of cotton acres are just about to the point of letting go for the season, but late season pests are presenting growers with difficult management decisions. Pests vary across the Midsouth, but many areas are still fighting spotty plant bugs and a second wave of bollworms. Though population levels, for the most part, are nothing to write home about, the timing presents a difficult choice.
Saltmarsh caterpillars are being reported in extreme numbers in soybeans, and treatments are going out in Arkansas and Mississippi. Although not seen in such high numbers very often, they are causing foliage loss in some areas.
Corn harvest is underway in much of the Midsouth, and yields are excellent. There is light at the end of a very long tunnel this year.