Tom Allen

Corn "yield losses associated with strong storms and short-term weather events often ranged from 5% to 35%, but extreme cases could result in up to 80%-100% yield loss." Read more in the @crop_science article at acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.100… from @cropstressOSU @OrtezCornCrops @paulcagronomist @gregroth1 @carrijo_crops @PurdueCorn and @marklicht. #AgTwitter #corn #hail #floods @NationalCorn @iowa_corn @OhioCornWheat @mncorn @INCornFarmers @ASA_CSSA_SSSA @CFAES_OSU

Will using a harvest aid help get wheat out earlier? By the time kernels mature and turn brown, wheat is naturally senescing. So using a herbicide will not likely expedite harvest. However, premature desiccation will rob yield and test weight by arresting kernel fill. 🌾

Staging corn becomes more difficult as vegetative growth progresses. Lower leaves die or get stripped off, but still must be accounted for. You can identify leaves knowing each younger leaf is longer and alternates alignment. This V8 corn is nearly 40-inches tall. 🌽#mscorn

Yield losses can range from 10 to 80% if susceptible cotton cultivars are grown in fields with high densities of reniform nematode. Get ID and management info on reniform nematode in the overview publication from Extension at cropprotectionnetwork.org/publications/a…. From @travisfaske @LSUNematology @UFcropnematodes @txextension @baldpathologist @ccecornell @MahDuffeck @IanMSmall1 @MandyBish1 @cottoninc @TheSCNCoalition @NematodeGuy @alabamaED @UFEntNem #cotton @PCGNews @kmbiss @ppp_trey

Cotton bacterial blight OVT screening trial year 9 @T_birdPathology @JMHuoni #mscrops #cotton

Download and print the corn foliar disease illustrated poster at cropprotectionnetwork.org/publications/c…. Poster size is 24x36. @NationalCorn @NeCGA @MississippiCorn @kscorn @ilcorn @iowa_corn @MississippiCorn @mncorn @sdcorn @NDCornGrowers @alisonrISU @DTelenko @alabamaED @MartinChilvers1 @ppp_trey @MandyBish1 @maddishires @badgercropdoc @baldpathologist #corn

We have a 9 yr rotation including grass livestock cover crops etc. All the right things with soil health a priority. But farming without nitrogen? - pick out the 0 N in these trial plots

Check out the revised Scouting for Soybean Stem Diseases pub from Extension at cropprotectionnetwork.org/publications/s…. @cropdoc08 @baldpathologist @cropdisease @BorisCamiletti @MartinChilvers1 @DylanMangel @dsmuelle @badgercropdoc @AlbertTenuta @DTelenko @UMNExt @BisonBeanDoc @travisfaske @MandyBish1 +others #soybeans #AgTwitter #USSoy @UnitedSoy

Busy week planting cotton and soybean trials at Rohwer Research Station. The station staff did a great job dodging the wind and getting fields sprayed behind us. Also breaking in a new infurrow / 2x2 system designed by @DavisSprayGuy (that's why I'm standing on the planter).

Redbanded stinkbugs are appearing in Southern fields in late April, not July. Consultants report populations so dense they’re difficult to count, and cold-tolerant varieties are expanding northward. farmprogress.com/insects/stinkb…

Red Crown Rot: Understanding Its Impact and How to Manage It from Extension at youtu.be/_xvEv5_AsVw. @DTelenko @BorisCamiletti @cropdisease @UKAgriculture @PurdueExtension @PurdueAgryExt @PurdueAg @ILextension @MandyBish1 @ppp_trey @ILSoybean @INSoybean @kysoybean #soybean #USSoy

@alabamaED @MSSOY @SpurlockLab @TNplantDR @travisfaske @ppp_trey @JMHuoni No, @ppp_trey usually finds it first on some younger (V2 plants) soybean plants. I just end up posting about it first.

@baldpathologist @MSSOY @SpurlockLab @TNplantDR @travisfaske @ppp_trey @JMHuoni You are always the first to find this disease 👏

Taproot decline of soybean has a common denominator. Dig around long enough and you’ll likely find blackened residue from the previous season that harbors the fungus. Roots of developing soybean plants come into contact with the residue and you get taproot decline #mscrops @MSSOY

Another week, another bug trap in the freezer #mscrops @MississippiCorn

Tyler Towles (@msstate) describes bollworm management in Mississippi on cotton and corn. Watch the 2025 MSU Row Crop Short Course webcast to learn more: planthealthexchange.org/cotton/Pages/G… @TheCottonBoard @CCultivated @CottonInc

A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude, It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food. Weeds are a bunch of fast-growing haters, Who block out the sun and are dumb stupid shaders. Gee wiz and crud and son of a gun, Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!

Crop loss calculator updated with latest data at cropprotectionnetwork.org/yield-loss-cal… In 2025, farmers in the U.S. and Canada experienced estimated losses of: ✅ $5.3 billion from corn diseases ✅ $2.2 billion from corn insect pests ✅ $996 million from wheat diseases ✅ $211 million from cotton diseases ✅ $2.3 billions from soybean diseases @travisfaske @DominicDReisig @justinmcmechan @bick_emily @badgerbean @AlbertTenuta @Jocelynlsmith @KelseyFAndersen @baldpathologist @alabamaED @MPlumblee @MandyBish1 @badgercropdoc @MartinChilvers1 @ppp_trey @DTelenko @BisonBeanDoc @DylanMangel @febina_m @dsmuelle @BorisCamiletti @YuanZeng3 @OhBuggers @NationalCorn @TheCottonBoard @kmbiss @USWBSI #corn #soybean #wheat #cotton

Rated a fungicide trial on wheat this afternoon in Carlisle with Lonoke County Ag agent Trapper Padgett. Drone compared to ground application. There was a fair amount of leaf rust in this trial.

Soybean seedling disease overview from Extension at cropprotectionnetwork.org/publications/a… @cropdoc08 @dsmuelle @MartinChilvers1 @AlbertTenuta +more @baldpathologist @maddishires @MandyBish1 @MahDuffeck @ppp_trey @alisonrISU @DTelenko @DylanMangel @BisonBeanDoc @alabamaED #IPM #agtwitter #USSoy