With warmer, sunny weather this crop has finally taken off and began to grow. For most fields except for low spots and lake bottoms, the yellow is basically gone, and several fields need a shot of a PGR at this time. With the widespread fields that missed the first couple of squares on most plants there will be a little less fruit on the plant to hold this crop back and keep it from growing off as well. Fleahoppers are still hit and miss in areas all around. Many fields are at and above threshold and need to be sprayed, while others are very difficult to find any at all. I encourage everyone to check all your fields, especially irrigated. Generally, our irrigated is our only concern, but this year we have some very good-looking dryland that has drawn some fleahoppers in. It will still be a call on whether to treat or not, but they still need to be monitored. Fields that where extremely weedy or had more white weeds appear to have more fleahoppers than most. We have picked up higher levels around St. Lawrence and to the east, but there are still hot spots to the west and down south.

I have begun finding headworms in sorghum lately. Levels have been anywhere from 10-60% of the heads with worms in them. At this point in time these worms are very small, less than ¼ inch. At this point they are not eating very much and are generally not much of an issue. They do need to be monitored however because when they get to be ½ inch or larger is when they will begin to consume about 85% of the total grain that they will eat in their lifetime. Stinkbugs are still very light. Sugarcane aphids have started picking up quite a bit in the Rio Grande Valley so hopefully by the time they get here we will not have to worry about them unless it is on late milo.