Crop Management
Rate, time, place and source. Even with supply chain issues, the basics hold true, and growers must be vigilant about managing the fertilizers they have.
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Despite a late season frost affecting crops, these recommendations suggest keeping with the regular fertility program during the spring.
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Wart-like galls on pecan leaves can be a sign of pecan leaf phylloxera, a pest that needs to be controlled at budbreak.
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A new grant is aimed at supporting American fertilizer production and addressing supply chain competition concerns.
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Skyrocketing fertilizer prices are popularizing input enhancer alternatives.
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Fertilizer prices are high, but pecan prices to growers aren't. Using cover crops and skipping an input year might be an option to make up the difference.
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Growers with previous ambrosia beetle infestations and those with young trees are encouraged to begin their spray programs.
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USDA Agricultural Research Service is rebooting an old farming technique to fight navel orangeworm.
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Discovered in 2015 in Michigan, North America's largest commercial chestnut producer, this majorly invasive pest also affects chestnut trees in Japan, Korea and Europe.
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USDA is allocating more than $70 million to support projects to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation.
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