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@twotthree64 @JoeWChristian Cottons coming back Tom haven’t you heard

@JoeWChristian i’m not planting any rice or corn this year. I’m afraid rice is gonna go the way of Cotton. Much too reliant on exports.

I’m selling my last year’s rice crop for $5.00 a bushel and I’m buying diesel for $5.70 a gallon. And still planting rice this year. #goingbroke

@sterlingclifton We did the same thing but now we just email them. Can remember my dad using little handhelds they’d plug in instead of just entering it in the computer

For some reason today I thought back about the madcap frustrations of having a printer in my truck..and how it seemed cutting edge at the time..then back to hand written reports..then thought, man I’m old 🤷🏻‍♂️

@broadchecks Coherence (2013)

Looking for a good stoned movie that will fuck you up

@gregzimpleman Already lots of corn up here already. We’d plant a lot more rn if we could hoping for dry weather

Am I the only one in the camp that thinks corn acres are gonna be massive again? It would not shock me to see 98 million? It may be a slow hand that deals but in the END I think we are gonna be close to that number.

@scottwestacre If you grow corn after this do you supplement with synthetic fert

20 tons of manure per load. This is stockpiled manure from feeder pens that is 6 months to a year old generally. With the very high price of commercial fertilizer we are glad we were able to speak for a big chunk this winter. This isn’t cheap but it will last a bit longer

@samrustomjr What insect lol

This insect is no joke. As confirmation continues in other rice producing states, please do not take them lightly, especially in ratoon rice.

@harkness_sean Here we plant trees usually but some people do grass if they want to return it to production one day. WRP permanent tho

@L_RICH23 Mainly grass here.

A friend’s ground that is going into CRP. Wasn’t allowed to harvest the wheat since it is the cover crop. Couldn’t even use a stripper header to preserve the stubble. No exceptions on cover harvesting.

@BSuthAg Spider mites too 👀

Cotton jassid , South GA

@CraigMM1 Roundup ready?

August 20th flowers on top- Phytogen 205 loaded up

@AmericotMan @UGAExtension I’m in the South Delta so west central MS but I’ll be on the lookout in the future

@L_RICH23 @UGAExtension Concentrate on the 3rd-5th leaves down from terminal. If you are in South Mississippi, I would be looking out for them. If you spray a lot of plant bugs, there’s a high probability you are taking the Jassid out as well, especially using OP’s.

Don’t mistake a yellow area in your field that looks as if it is running out of fertilizer or the sprayer might have run out of pix! Theres a high probability it is the 2 spotted cotton leafhopper. They are reaching threshold in fields across South GA. #DSFC @UGAExtension

@AmericotMan @UGAExtension Thank you. Our state’s extension has not mentioned them from what I can remember

@L_RICH23 @UGAExtension According to Dr Philip Roberts it is 3/leaf because they can reproduce so fast and turn cycles quickly! Like last week in this field I could find them, but not really a lot and this week they have blown up. Check your oldest cotton first. Hope this helps

@HarmsStephen17 @jwilgenburg1 My thought lol

That's a long ways to carry a gearbox...

@MattHintz3 @MuckBootCo Good ole fashioned lacrosse. Wear them for years before the heel of the sole falls off

Is there a rubber boot that isn’t trash anymore? The Servus boots Fleet Farm carries crack above my big toe a few months in, and I only wear them a couple times a month. @MuckBootCo suck too

@JerodMcDaniel Here at roughly 100’ we do pretty well if planted early enough

Places with higher elevations consistently grow better corn than places with lower elevations. It’s all about nighttime temps. I’m at 3500’ Go west 70 miles they’re 4500’ Better average yields by 10-20bu/ac

@BSuthAg They say Liberty is about just as good as Agri-Mek on them

Spider mites in cotton, farmer decided to spray orthene with herbicides early post and not as many beneficials now.

@AmericotMan I didn’t know it was peanuts lol sorry

@L_RICH23 I’ve been consulting in peanuts now for 27 years & every year there’s always several fields that get treated for TCAH & PLH(hopperburn). All I can say is MS doesn’t have the TCAH levels GA does or you might be losing yield. Might consider doing a little more research on them!🤷‍♂️

@AmericotMan I’ve seen the effects of them here and there but compensation from competing plants makes me not worry about them at all

@L_RICH23 No, not a joke! Look at the crown of plants & go up stems about 2-3 inches, that’s where the girdling typically occurs. Roots will begin to grow from the girdling which in turn makes the limb less productive & leaves an open channel for diseases. 🤷‍♂️