9-24-2009
Issues and Needs for the Next 3-5 Years
Research based crop management information aiding growers in making sound economic and environmental decisions.
- Whole Farm Profitability
- Input Costs
- Value of Trait/Treatment vs. Cost
- Production Practices
- Best Management Practices
- Seeding Rate (plant populations)
- Soil Fertility
- Fertilizer use/rates
- Livestock manures
- Glyphosate/Magnesium Interaction
- Conservation Tillage
- Marketing
- Cotton Issues
- Insects (Post-Eradication Pests)
- Insect Resistance (transgenic, chemical)
- Insecticide screening (thrips, aphids, fleahoppers, plant bugs, stink bugs, caterpillars, etc.
- Creontiades
- Stink Bug
- Lygus
- Management
- Relationship with water hemp
- Transgenic control
- Diminished activity late season (Widestrike)
- Other
- Weeds
- Herbicide Resistance (Round-up)
- Varieties
- Yield, Quality, Ecomomic Returns
- Systems (Economic Returns)
- Corn
- Insects
- Mexican Corn Rootworm
- Mexican Rice Borer
- Cutworms (Black)
- Sugarcane Borer (Interaction with Fusarium)
- Varieties
- Grain Sorghum
- Varieties
- Insects
- Creontiades
- Headworm
- Rice Stink Bug
- Soybeans
- Varieties
- Fungi
- Insects (thrips)
- Wheat
- Varieties
- Fungi
- Production Competitiveness (Regionally/Nationally)
- Crop Diversity-Flexibility-Alternate Crops
- Wheat
- Sesame
- Environmental Issues
- Best Management Practices
- Soil Conservation
- Conservation Tillage
- Best Management Practices
- Water Conservation
- Carbon Credits
- Organic Production
- Livestock Manures
- Feasibility
- Educational Issues
- Water Quality
- Organic Feasibility
- Food Safety
- Adult
- Schools and Youth
- Health
- Adult
- Schools and Youth
- Environment
- Adult
- Schools and Youth