I would caution that as we get way into the fall, sometimes when people are planting small grains in the fall, if we've had a bad fall armyworm year, even those can be at risk.Īmy Myers: What should we know about fall armyworms?īlake Layton: The main thing to know about fall armyworm is it's a very sporadic pest, so that means we never really know how bad they're going to be any given year. We can see fall armyworms and the stem maggots began appearing in June, but it's really in July and August and on into September that we end up doing most of our spraying. The July through summer months are when they're most damaging, but are there any other times of the year when we should be on the lookout?īlake Layton: I mean, those are the main months. Blake, fall armyworms and bermudagrass stem maggots can be serious pests in Mississippi hayfields. Blake Layton, Mississippi State University Extension entomologist. Hello, I'm Amy Myers and welcome to Farm and Family. The Index is interpreted as follows: a negative value indicates deterioration and a positive value indicates improvement in the general business conditions.Announcer: Farm and Family is a production of the Mississippi State University Extension Service.Īmy Myers: Today we're talking about fall armyworms and bermudagrass stem maggots. The BCI is a composite perception index based on the following indicators: level of business activity, turnover, profitability, incoming new business, capacity utilization, average costs for inputs, prices of produced goods, new orders for goods, business optimism, and number of employees. The BCI is intended to be an indicator of economic activity, to supplement official statistics.
They are delivered in a simple and easy to read form.
0 kommentar(er)
