A coyote ran between my legs. Carter employs three full-time consultants and two scouts. All of our consultants look at every field once a week. Our scouts make the second visits to detect any changes between consultant visits. When asked to do so, Carter sits in on budget meetings with his clients.
Returns are so poor growers are just doing the basics.
Fertilizer rates have been reduced and needless trips over the field eliminated. But there's only so much you can do before it shows up in reduced yield, and that's a problem we're trying to help them resolve. Boll weevil eradication has changed the face of scouting and pest management in Mississippi forever, says John Kimbrough. Consequently, we're making more spray applications for aphids, whiteflies, spider mites, armyworms-even stinkbugs. Kimbrough sees this as one of his greatest challenges.