After 17 years, Brood X cicadas to emerge for a noisy, speed dating free-for-all
The Knoxville News-Sentinel 2/1/2021 Brittany Crocker, Knoxville News Sentinel
After 17 years underground, these bugs are reappearing in 15 states
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Modern dating is challenging, and the premise of re-entering the social scene after a year of quarantine might be intimidating. But, imagine being a Brood X cicada.
The longest-known developing periodical cicada brood spends 17 years underground before emerging for a short courtship free-for-all akin to a Bridgerton social season.
So, as the nymphs come out of their shells (literally they shed their exoskeleton within days of emerging) in May this year, maybe we can relate.
Knoxville News Sentinel
Modern dating is challenging, and the premise of re-entering the social scene after a year of quarantine might be intimidating. But, imagine being a Brood X cicada.
The longest-known developing periodical cicada brood spends 17 years underground before emerging for a short courtship free-for-all akin to a Bridgerton social season.
So, as the nymphs come out of their shells (literally they shed their exoskeleton within days of emerging) in May this year, maybe we can relate.
Expect to see them in pockets across Tennessee. In fact, they ll emerge in a range from northern Georgia to New York, west to the Mississippi River and in the Midwest.
KNOXVILLE — Cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat. These row crops make up the bulk of row crop agriculture across Tennessee and a new certification from University of Tennessee Extension is now
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Tennessee producer Justin Woodall won his state’s soybean yield contest with a whopping 102 bu/a. Tennessee grower shares how he achieved 100+ bu/a soybean yields.
University of Tennessee Extension recently announced the winners of their soybean yield contest. Justin Woodall was the overall winner as well as irrigated winner. His contest plot, located in Grundy County, Tenn. yielded an impressive 102.59 bu/a. (Tennessee’s state soybean yield average is around 50 bu/a.)
On dryland acres, Josh Watson of Loudon County, Tenn. won with 92.59 bu/a.
Woodall, along with his father, brother and uncle, farms 3,000 acres of soybeans, corn and wheat spread across four counties in Middle Tennessee. The family also owns and operates Woodall Grain Company and runs around 700 head of stocker cattle. This was Woodall’s first year to enter the state’s soybean yield contest, although he was the state’s corn yield contest winner in 2019.
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“Fit Soybeans to your Field” is the title of one of the pre-recorded sessions offered at Tennessee’s virtual Grain Conference beginning February 4, 2021. With a mixture of live and pre-recorded virtual sessions, the 2021 Tennessee Grain Conference offers informative presentations and opportunities for continued education.
University of Tennessee Extension’s regional grain conferences will be combined into one virtual event in 2021.
The Grain and Soybean Conference will be available on Thursday, Feb. 4. It will consist of both live and pre-recorded sessions. Conference links can be found at utcrops.com.
The live Grain Conference sessions will begin at 8:45 a.m. CST and run through noon on Feb. 4. Live sessions include a talk on resistant weed management by Larry Steckel, UT Extension Weed Specialist, a presentation on safely moving farm equipment by Fred Whitford of Purdue University, and an overview of weather risks in