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Recent updates reported May 6th from the Arkansas Agricultural Statistics Service estimate 5% of the cotton crop to be planted. This is well behind last year’s 73% planted and the five-year average of 35%. There are some areas of the state that are dry enough to plant, mostly in the central part of the state, but Continue reading How Late Should We Plant Cotton? This Monday’s (4/29/13) USDA Crop Weather Report merely stated the obvious. Not much if any cotton has been planted in Arkansas. The report stated that 2% of the state’s cotton crop had been planted. This number is well below last year at this time (46%) and the five year average (20%). With the calendar Continue reading Unfavorable weather causes Arkansas’ cotton planting forecast to deteriorate GETTING READY — A spray buggy runs ahead of the planter to get a pre-emerge herbicide down as corn planting season begins in Chicot County, Arkansas. (U of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture photo by Gus Wilson.) Arkansas’ cotton acres were expected to plummet, and rice acres to shrink slightly in 2013, but Continue reading Prospective Plantings report: Ark cotton, rice acres down 
The agriculture community has used anhydrous ammonia as a low cost, highly effective nitrogen-based fertilizer for years. It’s prevalence in the farming community makes it easy to sometimes forget that this a dangerous chemical and should be handled with caution and care. The word, “anhydrous”, means without water. When anhydrous ammonia comes in contact Continue reading Safe handling of anhydrous ammonia Monitoring irrigation pumps has provided some intriguing lessons. Christopher Henry, assistant professor and water management engineer based at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, Ark., reveals some of those findings. Click the image below to see his presentation at the 2012 Cotton Incorporated Crop Management Seminar Talks. Continue reading Lessons learned from irrigation pump monitoring The 2012 Cotton Research Verification Program Annual Report is now available on the University of Arkansas Extension website. It can be viewed by clicking on the publications tab and searching for the title listed above. In 2012 there were seven fields entered into the Cotton Research Verification Program (CRVP). Locations included the following Continue reading 2012 Cotton Research Verification Annual Report Recently Published The USDA-Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced last Friday (2/15) the 2013 crop year projected prices for corn, grain sorghum, cotton, rice and soybeans. The projected prices approved for the Yield Protection, Revenue Protection, and Revenue Protection with Harvest Price Exclusion plans were $5.82 per bushel for corn, $5.70/bu. grain sorghum, $13.05/bu. soybeans, $15.70/cwt rice, Continue reading Crop Insurance Projected Prices Announced |
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