On The Farm: Crop Report An Early Discussion of Varieties for Planting This Fall Dedicated Research Funding Committee Report

摘要

At the writing of this article on April 15,2011, fieldwork is at full throttle for most growers. Early populations for this spring are higher than those of last year, even for second stubble HoCP 96-540. Only a small portion of the belt has received enough rain over the last couple of weeks to prevent early spring preparation of their fields for fertilization. As one grower who farms a large amount of clay soils here on the Teche recently pointed out about last year; a year ago at this time he was still trying to get into his fields, while at the same time this year, he has about 3 or four days of fertilizing left. It appears that this year, on the average, the cost to apply about the same rates of nutrients as last year will cost 15 - 20% more. Because of the higher price of fertilizer, greater efforts have been taken this year to make sure that a maximum cost of return is achieved.