Visual Guide to Corn Growth Stages
Identifying corn growth stages is essential for successful crop management of pests, irrigation, and fertility. This guide will help growers, consultants, Extension, and research personnel properly...
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Jun 16, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Identifying corn growth stages is essential for successful crop management of pests, irrigation, and fertility. This guide will help growers, consultants, Extension, and research personnel properly...
Jun 11, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Crop injury can occur when an insecticide application predisposes a plant to phytotoxicity from a subsequent foliar herbicide application. However, these products do not normally result in crop...
Jun 5, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Cotton
Several species of stink bugs are pests of cotton in the southeastern United States, including southern green stink bug, Nezara viridula, green stink bug, Chinavia hilaris (formerly Acrosternum...
Jun 2, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Soybean
Foliar fungal diseases can cause significant yield losses in South Carolina soybeans. The degree of yield loss depends upon several factors, including variety selection, environmental conditions,...
Apr 12, 2023 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Introduction Cutworms are sporadic but serious early-season pests of corn in the United States. Several species of cutworm can feed on a broad range of plants, including vegetables, turf, field...
Sep 13, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Forages, Horticulture
Soil testing is a helpful tool for monitoring soil fertility and determining lime and fertilizer requirements for crops, including row, forage, and horticultural crops. Soil tests measure the pool...
Jul 15, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Forages, Horticulture, Livestock, Livestock and Forages
This publication provides information about important insect pests of alfalfa in South Carolina and surrounding states in the southeastern United States. Descriptions of the insect pests, scouting...
Jun 15, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Identifying and distinguishing between common and southern rust is important for proper corn management. This guide is to help growers, consultants, researchers, and Extension personnel correctly...
Apr 29, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Soybean
Identifying soybean growth stages is essential for proper crop management of pests, irrigation, and fertility. This guide will help growers, consultants, extension, and research personnel correctly...
Feb 14, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, is a generalist pest capable of feeding on over 300 different plant species, many of which are of economic importance.1 One of the main crops that Japanese beetle...
Jan 3, 2022 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Much of the field corn produced in the United States expresses an insecticidal toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) that helps the plant control or suppress insect pests without the need for...
Aug 31, 2021 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn, Cotton, Peanut
Crops that emerge from seed left over from the previous season harvest are considered weeds in subsequent cropping cycles. In the case of peanuts, pods that detach from the pegs/vines during the...
Jul 21, 2021 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Corn
Corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea, is the most common aboveground pest of corn in the southeastern United States.1 It is also a significant pest of many other cultivated crops in the Southeast,...
Jul 15, 2021 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Peanut
Various biotic and abiotic stresses pose a threat to peanut production. Among these stresses, the soilborne fungi Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus contaminate peanut seeds with aflatoxins...
Apr 18, 2021 | Agriculture, Agronomic Crops, Sorghum, Soybean
Sorghum is a drought-tolerant crop suitable for growing in South Carolina. Although it can survive well under adverse conditions, nitrogen (N) insufficiency and water stress can reduce sorghum grain...
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