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Darrin Dodds, cotton specialist with the Mississippi StateUniversity Extension Service, said cotton fields were generally ingood condition. A favorable harvest season in 2010 allowed many growers tocomplete fall operations in a timely manner and prepare the landfor the 2011 growing season, Dodds said. Although some weedspecies are proving tough to control, fields are generally in goodshape. Much of the state suffered from a lack of rainfall through most ofthe growing season, and Dodds said this depleted the subsoilmoisture. Timely rainfall should be beneficial for many crops as long as itdoes not become excessive, Dodds said. Erick Larson, Extension grain crops agronomist, said many Deltawheat fields have been visited by a lot of snow geese. Wheat can generally sustain considerable grazing activity duringthe winter, Larson said. These birds should not reduce yieldpotential as long as they eat just the top growth of wheat beforeit leaves winter dormancy and begins to grow in the spring. The geese will damage the wheat stand if they extract the entireplant. This threat is most likely if feeding is particularlyintense and sustained through February, he said. Normally, bythe time it warms up enough for the wheat to begin growing rapidly,the geese migrate back north. Jerry Singleton, area Extension agronomic crops agent in LefloreCounty, said snow geese numbers have increased each year because ofalmost no hunting pressure and limited predators. We had more problems with snow geese this year because theirnumbers were up and we had more wheat planted, Singleton said. Most farmers were very aggressive about trying to keep the geeseout of the wheat fields. The geese do a lot of grazing, and I veseen fields where they ve thinned the wheat population quite abit. Larson said most corn fields are wet, but saturated conditions arenot unusual in the spring. Dry weather allowed fall corn fieldpreparations to go well, and with herbicide burndown applicationsmostly complete, the fields are looking good for spring planting ifproducers can get a few breaks from spring rains. Late March toearly April is the optimum corn planting time. Nathan Buehring, Extension rice specialist, said waterfowl inflooded fields has not been a problem for rice producers. Good fallweather meant rice fields are mostly ready for the spring, butrecent windy weather has hampered the aerial application ofburndown chemicals needed to kill weeds before rice is planted. There s been so much ground ready that pilots have not been ableto keep up with burndown treatments, Buehring said. He said rice farmers are waiting for a dry spell so fields will beready for spring planting. We like to start the last week of March in the southern part ofthe Delta, and as we move farther north, the first week of April isa good target date for the rest of the state, Buehring said. -30- Released: March 10, 2011 Contact: Dr. Erick Larson (662) 325-2701; Dr. Darrin Dodds (662)325-4072; Dr. Nathan Buehring (662) 686-3301; or Jerry Singleton(662) 453-6803. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Flap Barrier , Automatic Swing Gate Manufacturer for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Boom Barrier Gate.
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