Please Help Me If You Can – I Need and Want A Good Home!

Gary Cooper Ag "Outdoors", Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, Equine, Field Crops, Florida, Forestry, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables

I realize this post is unusual, but my wife Robin and I here at AgNet headquarters are trying to help find a good home for a wonderful puppy, presently staying at our vet’s office. We would love to have the dog but just adding a fourth rescued puppy to our own home recently, along with our four rescued cats too, …

DuPont Coragen Aids in Insect Control Without Harming Beneficials

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Corn, Field Crops, Florida, Georgia, Specialty Crops, Vegetables

Thanks to a newly expanded crop label, more producers are now able to use the insect control of DuPont Coragen. And Lars Swanson, portfolio manager for Rynaxypyr products, says that this new mode of action will provide a key solution for growers who are looking for tools to manage and prevent resistance from insects without harming beneficials. Download Audio

Cost of Cuts at Land Grant Universities – A Guest Column

Gary Cooper Alabama, Beef, Cattle, Citrus, Corn, Cotton, Dairy, Energy, Equine, Field Crops, Florida, Forestry, General, Georgia, Livestock, Nursery Crops, Peanuts, Pork, Poultry, Soybeans, Specialty Crops, Sugar, Vegetables

This article is by Mark R. McLellan, Dean for Research, University of Florida/IFAS With the deepest recession since the 1930s, the decline in tax revenues, and the growing demand for emergency public services for unemployed workers and their families, state government budgets are in crisis. Not surprisingly, many states are freezing or even cutting their funding for some of the …

Monsanto has a New Mode of Action for Corn Ear Worm

Randall Weiseman Alabama, Corn, Field Crops, Georgia

Farmers here in the Southeast have traditionally not had any effective and economical mode of action to address Corn Earworm, but Ty Fowler, DeKalb brand agronomist, says that is all in the past as Monsanto now has the Genuity VT Triple Pro technology to address the destructive pest. Download Audio