Tag: crop rotation

• Weekly Field Update – 8/16/21

  Coastal Region Zack Snipes reports, “Its hot and humid in the Lowcountry. Fall tomato and watermelons are in the ground and enjoyed a week of mostly dry weather. Okra and sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes, are loving this heat. With the exception of those crops, there aren’t too many crops in the ground right now.  I am […]

  Justin Ballew

  August 16, 2021

  Weekly Field Updates

  clemson extension, cover crops, crop destruction, crop rotation, Disease, fall crops, Hemp, hot, humidity, pecans, rain, south carolina, Weekly Field Updates

• What is NOT Proper Crop Rotation

  From Clemson Plant Pathologist Tony Keinath. There seems to be some confusion about what is a proper crop rotation to manage diseases caused both by pathogens that survive a few years in soil and pathogens that survive in soil longer than anyone can measure. Here are some rotations I have heard about that are not […]

  Justin Ballew

  July 6, 2021

  Disease

  crop rotation, Disease, disease management

• Weekly Field Update – 8/17/20

  Statewide Dr. Tony Keinath with a word on crop rotation. “To keep the soil on your farm productive over the long term, do not replant the same vegetable, or a related crop, in the same field “too often.” How often is “too” often depends on the crop and the pathogens present in the soil. Almost […]

  Justin Ballew

  August 17, 2020

  Weekly Field Updates

  bacterial wilt, clemson extension, crop rotation, fall crops, harvest, muscadines, planting, south carolina, Tomatoes, Weekly Field Updates