Catawba County Row Crops Program
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The Catawba County Cooperative Extension Row Crops Program provides technical support and educational training for commercial farmers of traditional row crops such as corn, soybean, small grains. As well as alternative row crops such as hemp, canola, sorghum, and others.
Our row crops agent, Dr. George Place, also provides consultation for commercial vegetable producers, pond weeds, biotic and abiotic problem diagnostics and management, weed identification, soil management, and general agronomy. We provide consultation to farmers with field visits, problem diagnostics, and field sampling for laboratory analysis.
Program Vision: to provide row crop producers with the information and technical training that they need to improve farm profitability.
Program Goal: to provide educational and technical assistance to farmers based on their production needs.
Pesticides
Auxin Herbicide Training is required for all persons planning to apply dicamba (Engenia, FeXapan, or XtendiMax) to Xtend cotton or soybeans or 2,4-D (Enlist Duo or Enlist One) to Enlist cotton or soybeans. Take a look at the 2020 full schedule of training sessions around the state. 1 CEU for pesticide licenses N, D, O, X will also be given.
Take a look at this training about Enlist E3 soybeans from Dr. Alan York. The password for the recording is: 2O?e*Z%6
The 2019 Auxin Herbicides-Best Management Practices training was recently recorded. Contact you local Extension agent for more details.
Covid-19 Info
Small Business Benefits and the CARES Act: What Farm and Food Producers Need to Know
Small Business Coronavirus Relief Options
Industrial Hemp
Are you interested in growing Hemp? Take a look at these resources or call our office for more info:
NC State Extension Hemp website
Hemp Production – Keeping THC Levels Low
Hemp Production – Market Opportunities and Risk
Harvesting and Drying Hemp For CBD
Hemp Production in Catawba County
Industrial Hemp Pest Management
Soybeans
NC State Extension Soybean Yield Contest
Replanting Soybean Considerations
Planting soybeans with cool weather on the horizon
Enlist Soybean Trait Herbicide Systems Comparison – Label Facts.pdf
Seven-State Soybean Sulfur Fertilization Trials
Predicting Soybean Growth Stages
Video on the value of foliar feeding soybeans at growth stage R3
Important Changes to Insecticide Recommendations and Thresholds for Corn Earworm
Video summarizing our results from the Soybean Uniform Emergence work from 2016-2018
Pre-plant fertility for soybeans
Planting soybeans into cereal rye
Mitigating the risk of very early soybean planting
Early maturing soybeans – how are they performing across the state? Take a look at this video.
For a more comprehensive summary on early MG soybean performance, take a look at this publication.
Soybean growers have a new tool from the Official Variety Testing (OVT) that takes place throughout NC. Take a look at this variety selector tool. You can filter by maturity group, herbicide technology, company, disease resistance, and more. You can also sort by yield
Take a look at the United Soybean Board’s Ag Tech page
2019 Soybean Yield Contest Results are available.
Small Grains
NC State Extension Small Grains website
90 second video on current wheat fertility recommendations
Italian ryegrass is a challenging weed to control in wheat. Take a look at this 2 minute video for the most recent updates.
For Fusarium Head Blight (FHB), the most effective fungicides are Prosaro, Caramba, Proline, and Miravis Ace. Fungicides containing strobilurins may increase the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON), and those fungicides should not be used after flag leaf in case of an FHB epidemic. Use the Fusarium Risk Assessment Tool to help you decide if spraying a fungicide is the best decision.
Small Grain OVT results for 2019
Small Grain OVT results for 2018
Corn
NC State Extension Corn website
Keys to Successful Corn Production
Weed Management
NC State Extension’s Weed Management in Nurseries, Landscapes and Christmastrees
Palmer Amaranth Control in Soybeans
Waterhemp has been found in Catawba County. Take a look at the latest updates from Wes Everman on herbicide resistant weeds.
Insect Management
NC State Extension Entomology website
See these new threshholds for spraying stink bugs in corn.
Threshholds for spraying for corn ear worm in soybean.
Check out these tips for scouting corn seedling insects pests.
Disease Management
NC State Extension Plant Pathology website
For more information on the Row Crops program, contact George Place at 828-465-8247.
Stay up to date about all of the classes, workshops, cooking classes, tours, and activities – sign up for the Catawba County Extension monthly newsletter.
Additional Resources For Row Crop Production
NC FarmLink: The mission of NC FarmLink is to connect farmers with land to farm. A robust database allows users to have their own account. Farm seekers can develop a profile that can be viewed by farm owners and land owners seeking to find someone to buy, lease, or work on their farm. Farm owners and and landowners can develop property profiles to describe the land they want to sell, lease, or have someone come to work on their farm.
Minority and Veteran Farmer Resources
Take a look at the Southwest Piedmont Grain Grower’s Portal for information on soybean and corn variety trials, respirator fit test fact sheet, and more.
National Crop Insurance Services has established a new website
Articles
Hemp Production – Keeping THC Levels Low
Hemp Production – Market Opportunities and Risk