Field Crops

Field crops — tobacco, soybeans, corn, cotton, peanuts, sweet potatoes, forages and small grains — pervade North Carolina’s rural landscape. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps growers maintain profitability by providing the latest research-based information and recommendations on the best varieties and production practices for the state’s conditions. Extension also helps growers comply with changing regulations, investigate new higher-value opportunities, develop solid business plans and explore marketing options.

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To Test Or Not To Test

If your car or boat has set around without being operated since last fall, would you get into either one and set out on a 90-day trip? I don’t … MORE »Posted: 3/26/13

Combine Fire

The time for fall harvest is here. As with many farm hazards, those present in combine harvesting situations are usually recognized. For instance, belts and pulleys needed for operating … MORE »Posted: 7/31/12

Hay Under Attack: Be on the Lookout for Fall Armyworms

Recently here in Sampson County and surrounding counties, farmers have been reporting damage from armyworms to their bermudagrass pastures and hayfields. Just this past week I witnessed how quickly … MORE »Posted: 7/25/12

Controlling Wnter Weeds In Pastures & Sprayfields

With winter annuals planted and Bermudagrass gone dormant, now is the time to begin searching for winter weeds. Weeds are just now beginning to germinate—young and actively growing. The … MORE »Posted: 11/3/11

Just When You Thought The Tobacco Crop Was Over

As much as you may dread investing anything more into this year’s tobacco crop, you may want to consider a few things that still must be done to ensure … MORE »Posted: 10/5/11

Leaf Spot, Problem or Symptom

We are transitioning out of the summer growing season, the days are getting shorter, and the nights cooler. As the days drop down into the low nineties farmers with … MORE »Posted: 9/16/11

New Insecticide For Fall Armyworm Control in Pastures and Hayfields

The Fall Armyworm, is a chronic pest here in NC and the rest of the Southeast. It feeds on many forage crops, but appears to prefer a lush healthy … MORE »Posted: 7/20/11

Hot, Dry Weather Impacts Crop Decisions

Our management decisions for all crops change as the weather conditions change. The way we manage pests, disease, weeds, and crop height in dry weather can be dramatically different … MORE »Posted: 6/15/11

Lean to Green

If you have noticed in recent years that your previously productive hayfields and pastures had been overtaken with weeds or you are just not getting the productiveness you want, … MORE »Posted: 4/14/11

Water Sampling for Healthy Tobacco Transplants

Water is not just water when it comes to transplant production. Tobacco transplants in the greenhouse, as well as other greenhouse crops, require certain key components to be produced … MORE »Posted: 1/27/11

Getting The Most Out Of Your Soybean Crop

Harvest is well underway, as corn and tobacco have mostly been harvested. Cotton, peanuts and sweet potatoes will be the next crops out of the field followed by soybeans. … MORE »Posted: 9/24/10

Stink Bug Scouting Aid Available

Pick up your stink bug scouting aid at the Sampson County Extension OfficePosted: 8/3/10

Sampson Field Report–August 2010

Sampson Field Report–August 2010 In this article: Moth flight update, Precision Ad Field day, Last Chance Pesticide Credits, Soybean Rust Update, New Soybean Pest, Soybean ScoutingPosted: 8/3/10

Weed Control in Pastures and Hay Fields

Now that summer is upon us and some dry days have arrived, producers have started making hay. With this increase in activity, I have received quite a few calls … MORE »Posted: 5/26/10

Herbicide Resistance Still a Major Concern

This time last year it was very easy to ride around and see that our major problem in the county was pigweed. This year it seems most farmers have … MORE »Posted: 7/2/09

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