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Soybean crop

2024 Soybean Insect & Disease Control

Information on Insect and Disease Control in Soybeans Several sites in the area monitor corn earworm moth flights from corn to cotton and soybeans. As expected, numbers started to climb around the…

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2024 Regional Insecticide Recommendations for Plant Bugs

Start scouting cotton in 2024. Before cotton blooms, tarnished plant bugs, or Lygus, damage the crop by feeding in tender terminals and, more commonly, directly on small squares with their…

Stinkbug in corn

Stink Bug Management in Corn

Scout Before Spraying Stink BugStink Bug Management in Corn I was out in the field today scouting corn. Growth stages range from V-4 to tassel. In one of the fields I scouted, I pulled down a path…

Forest with several trees underbrush cleared with man walking

NC Forest Service Forest Health / Pesticide Workshop - January 11, 2024

Below is a link to the Agenda for a Forest Health/Pesticide workshop offered on January 11, 2024, at Wayne Community College. The event will start at 9:00 AM and end at 4:30 PM.This is open to the…

Green crop rows

Mid and Late Season Scouting Tips for Cotton and Soybeans

Mid and Late season Scouting tips for Cotton and Soybeans To find out more about Scouting tips for Cotton and Soybeans please click the link below. For more information about this click here

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Monitoring Stink Bug in Soybeans

Monitoring Stinkbugs in Soybeans We will be monitoring stinkbugs in soybeans this summer. Tay Possebom, a graduate student with Dominic Reisig will place traps in 34 soybean fields in Johnston County…

Green crop rows

Information on Insect and Disease Control in Soybeans

Information on Insect and Disease Control in Soybeans To read more about this Please click here

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2026 HHW and Pesticide Disposal Day

2026 HHW and Pesticide Disposal Day Need to clean out the old barn, chemical storage building, closet, or garage? Here is your opportunity.The event will be on April 25th, 2026, at the Johnston…

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The Johnston County Grower January 2023 Edition

This newsletter has all the information on upcoming Production meetings and the 2023 schedule of all Pesticide credits, including the Tobacco Production meeting, fumigation training, Corn & Small…

Dry brown grass with scattered taller green grass shoots and small clumps

Fall Armyworms on the Move in Johnston County

In the last week, several severe infestations of fall armyworms have been identified in Johnston County, particularly in bermudagrass hayfields with more than 6" of growth. Fall armyworm larvae can…