Faske Videos Guide Viewers Through Nematode Issues CONT. FROM FRONT PAGE


about managing this species on soybean. Just last week I got a call from a soybean farmer in Indi- ana and one in Okla- homa.” Faske said he’s been


involved with the coali- tion for a year or two and the videos provided the first opportunity to be a voice over a national platform about nematode issues facing farmers in the South. As its name implies, the root-knot nematode can


feed on a plant’s root sys- tem, damaging


the


plant’s ability to absorb water and nutrients. Damage left by the ne- matodes can also provide openings for fungal and bacterial infections. Faske offers manage-


ment advice in the videos, available at https://bit.ly/ArkTodes- Faske. A key step to managing


nematodes is sampling. Samples can be submit- ted to the Division of Agriculture’s Nematode


North Carolina CONT. FROM FRONT PAGE


packer/shipper has an office in the UK and ships sweet potatoes in- ternationally,” Wyatt Scott says. “We recently started producing our own young plants, or ‘shoots’, on the farm that we set out from the middle of May thru June.” To increase their quality


control and give them more marketing flexibility, the Scotts are planning to construct a curing and storage facility in the near future to increase both the productivity and efficiency of their operation. They keep cotton in their


crop mix in part for the agronomic benefits of rota- tion, and in part because their three cotton har- vesters have been paid for a long time. “We’ve seen the new bailer pickers, but we’ve also heard about some of the headaches that come with them. Plus, we really don’t have enough cotton acreage to justify a machine like that,” says Scott, who ad- mits his family has always taken good care of their equipment and conducts in-depth research on any-


thing they contemplate purchasing. “We have a good friend who is a great mechanic and he pulls any needed maintenance on all our pickers between De- cember and January. We’re currently running two John Deere 9965s and a 9970.” Grandfather’s Advice Wyatt Scott’s grandfa-


ther, Joseph Franklin Scott, Sr., gave his family some advice when Wyatt was young. “He told us if we take care of the land, the land will take care of us,” Scott remembers. “Through the years, we have applied that wisdom to many things on our op- erations, especially equip- ment.” When the farm’s old 14- flail-type mower


foot


started getting long in the tooth, Wyatt talked to his local Quality Equipment dealer and friend Travis Lamm. “Travis told me about a cutter/shredder manufactured by Major Equipment Co., called the Cyclone. He was going to demo the company’s MJ30-630 model that has over 20 feet of cutting width at a neighbor’s farm,


so we decided to go see it,” says Scott. “Most recently, we had a rotary-style mower that we had to stop using to cut stalks be- cause it would leave large clumps of residue in the fields that remained even after we tilled the ground prior to planting tobacco or sweet potatoes. The Cy- clone seems to incorporate the better qualities that the flail-style and rotary-style mowers offer and it and does a better job spreading out that residue than any mower/shredder we’ve used.” The line of Cyclone


mower/shredders are con- structed by a family-owned manufacturer in Ireland. “Our neighbor bought it right then and there. I went back home, looked at some You Tube videos of it and in addition to the durable galvanized steel construction, I also liked that hydraulics fold the wings to nine feet, just about the width of the tractor we use,” Scott says. “I can travel down the road in one lane and never have to get on the shoulder to allow someone to pass, which is a big safety ad-


vantage.” With a three-point hitch


hook-up, all of the cutter’s weight is distributed be- tween the tractor and the full-length rear roller that promotes stability on un- even ground. “I’m running it on a Holland T7 190 tractor and only hitting 50 percent of the engine load. I’ve yet to bog it down, even when using it on some of our CRP land,” says Scott. “We’ve cut about 200 acres of cotton stalks so far this year. I’ve been running it up to 7 mph, and it’s done a great job mulching and dispersing stalk residue.” The Scotts like to keep


the Cyclone in the same field as the cotton pickers during harvest to shred stalks as they go. “You can pretty much cut seven 36- inch rows at a time. Even when we got into some rank cotton, the height ad- justments, which may be changed from 2 inches to 6 ¾ inches, make it adapt- able to almost any height requirement,” says Scott. “I also put it through the ringer on some uneven pastureland and it did a good job of ‘flexing’ to fol- low the contour of the land. I think the Cyclone can be used for a variety of stalk crops that need to be cut and dispersed after harvest – which leads to faster decomposition.” As Halloween passed,


Lucama, North Carolina farmer Wyatt Scott did his research and watched a You Tube video before deciding to purchase his Cyclone cutter/shredder he used this season to cut 700 acres of stalks after cotton harvest.


the Scotts had wrapped up sweet potato harvest and were turning their atten- tion to cotton. “Just when the three harvesters were picking as fast as they could, we looked down the road and saw a flatbed truck carrying another Cy- clone cutter/shredder that we had ordered a while back. Sometimes, timing is everything,” Scott.


concludes ∆


BRAD ROBB: Contribut- ing Writer


Diagnostic Laboratory in Hope.


(See:


https://aaes.uark.edu/t echnical-services/nema- t o d e - d i a g n o s t i c - laboratory/.) “We are one of the few


states that have a nema- tode diagnostic lab and one of the leading states that has continued to provide farmers support by offering this service free of charge,” Faske said. “Because produc- tion systems change every few years, we in ex- tension recommend sam-


pling every three to four years to monitor changes in nematode population densities.” “For the past five years


the Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board has supported free nematode assays,” Faske said. He said that also weather conditions had not been favorable for sampling ef- forts during the past two years, growers and con- sultants have been tak- ing advantage of better conditions in 2020. Two Division of Agricul-


ture publications offer additional information on nematode management: • The fact sheet “Man-


agement of Economically Important Nematodes of Arkansas


Cotton,”


https://www.uaex.edu/ publications/PDF/FSA- 7567.pdf • The “Arkansas Soy-


bean Production Hand- b o


o k ,


https://www.uaex.edu/ p u b l


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tions/pdf/mp197/chap- ter10.pdf


The SCNCoalition is a


group of extension spe- cialists, university re- searchers and private sector


representatives


working to address nem- atode management. The SCNCoalition is funded by the soybean checkoff, including the Arkansas Soybean Board.


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