November 18, 2025
From Dr. Bhupinder Farmaha: South Carolina Farmers: Your Input Needed! I’m planning 2026 soil fertility research and extension programming across South Carolina. What are your biggest challenges with crop nutrition, cover crops, manure management, and soil health? Your feedback will directly shape our: Please take 5 minutes to complete this survey: https://clemson.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0d4i9uYaI73sM1E Let’s work together to […]
July 29, 2025
With corn harvest starting up last week, now is a great time to take a few minutes to perform a yield monitor calibration. Relative and/or accurate yield data can be useful for hybrid evaluation on your farm, identifying problem spots such as nematode areas for sampling later this fall and helping make management decisions for […]
July 25, 2025
Corn harvest is beginning in the coastal plain as of this week. A reminder that following harvest is a great time to pull fall nematode samples to use in combination with our fall threshold values to know how to manage the crop in 2026. We are providing nematode samples for free courtesy of the SC […]
July 25, 2025
On July 29, 2025, the Clemson Agribusiness team is leading a “90-day market outlook discussions for corn and soybeans” at two locations: 9:00 am Hutto Brothers Farm — 444 Shuler Belt Road, Holly Hill, SC 6:30 pm Brogdon Family Farms – 3555 Old Manning Rd, Manning, SC Discussion Topics Include: This would be a good […]
July 23, 2025
Over the 2024-2025 wheat growing season we conducted an on-farm trial in Anderson county evaluating the efficacy and return on investment (ROI) of applying fungicides to wheat. We compared 3 treatments; 1 fungicide spray at flowering, 2 fungicide sprays with one at green up and one at flowering, and an untreated check. A 40 acre […]
June 27, 2025
Below is a figure that describes the various corn growth stages during reproductive growth (from silking to black layer). The estimated number of days between growth stages will help give corn producers an idea of the progression of the crop for management decisions, specifically irrigation termination. 🌽 Reproductive (R) Stages Additional information on growth staging […]
June 18, 2024
As of this week approximately 60% of our corn crop is silking. Tassel/R1 (Silk) is the most water sensitive growth stage of corn, if irrigation is available we need to ensure that we are irrigating corn 2 inches per week minus what is captured through rainfall. In terms of our non-irrigated acreage, yield will suffer […]
June 7, 2023
Across the state, the earliest planted corn I have looked at is looking very good as we begin to see tassels emerge and pollen shed. In many cases, a lot of our earliest planted corn this year has been under irrigation which sets us up to produce a very good crop. However, we are not […]
