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Early-season cornfield

5 Tips for Managing Early-Season Plant Stress

Mar 04, 2026 | Answer Plot
Planting is just around the corner. Every decision you make, including your seed purchase and the ground conditions you place it in, can affect the number on the yield monitor at harvest. When seeds start in cold, wet soils, it can lead to early-season plant stress that can impac...
Drone shot of a grower applying a pre-emergence herbicide

Take Care of Early Spring Weeds Before Planting

Feb 24, 2026 | Answer Plot
If you deal with winter or spring annual weeds in your fields, it's important to consider including a spring burndown herbicide application. Winter annuals, including marestail, chickweed, henbit, pennycress and shepherd’s purse, resume growing as soon as temperatures g...
Spraying fungicide on mid-season corn field

Look to Fungicides to Help Manage Disease in High-Value Hybrids

Dec 16, 2025 | Answer Plot
In 2025, moisture was extremely prevalent in some areas, and with it, disease pressure. Across the lower corn belt from St. Louis to central Ohio, heavy rains came in the early season, impacting planting timing, while the central upper Midwest received excessive moisture mid-seas...
Closeup of a soybean plant.

6 Disease Management Tips for Corn and Soybeans

Nov 25, 2025 | Answer Plot
With the strong disease pressures we saw in 2025, it’s a good idea to consider now how you’ll handle those potential threats in the upcoming season. Your crops (and your wallet) will benefit from a proactive approach to disease management. Here are six tips to plan ah...
Equipment for seed treatment

Why Seed Treatments Are Critical For Crop Success

Oct 28, 2025 | Answer Plot
Your crop has its maximum potential before the seed ever hits the soil. Every day after planting, biotic and abiotic stresses can chip away at that seed’s yield potential. That’s why investing in an effective seed treatment is so important. Seed treatments help protec...

What You Need to Know About the EPA Herbicide Strategy

Sep 08, 2025 | Answer Plot
On August 20, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final Herbicide Strategy, calling it an “unprecedented step” toward protecting more than 900 federally endangered and threatened species from the potential impacts of herbicide use. At ...

EVENTS

The Cooperator

The April 2026 issue of The Cooperator is available now. News and features from Tennessee agriculture and the Co-op community include: 

  • The memberships of White County Farmers Co-op, with locations in Sparta and Monterey, and Warren Farmers Co-op in McMinnville, have agreed to merge the Co-ops into a single business that, effective March 1, will be known as White Warren Farmers Cooperative.
  • Ryan Jenkins, a fourth-generation row crop farmer from Jay, Florida, urges fellow farmers to be agriculture ambassadors. Jenkins was a keynote presenter at the GreenPoint Ag Southern Agronomy Summit in Nashville in January.
  • Cooperator staff looks ahead to what 2026 might hold as Tennessee producers take on another year of slim margins and new opportunities in the article “Strategic optimism: Ag in 2026.”

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