CabCast Episode 32 - 21 Sep 2026

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we discuss sweet potato production and research trials, including pest and weed problems. We also touch on a bit of history for this crop on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, including the regional Hayman sweet potato. Dr. Vijay Singh also reports on plant back timing for wheat following certain herbicide applications.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we cover the 12-year long-term cover crop study led by Virginia Tech Eastern Shore AREC, including topics around nutrition and organic matter changes, gases, weed and insect changes over time. We also discuss weed resistance issues with our weed scientist.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, our entomology and plant pathology specialists discuss pest resistance to pesticides.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, our team discusses cover crops, crop fertility and Carolina Bays effects on crops, soybean looper pressure and control in late reproductive stages soybeans and continued disease pressure in snap beans from fungal pathogens leading to russeting and spotting on pods.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we discuss planting strawberries in commercial fields vs. gardens, insect pheromone trapping and weed issues with palmer amaranth and pigweeds highlighting the different species and their identification.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we discuss cover crops and the cover crop selection tool, weed control in sorghum and updates on research in the horticulture department.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we discuss the work on sweet corn of Masters' student Pooja Panwar in the lab of Dr. Douglas Higgins as well as sweet corn variety trial plans and insect pressure. Dr. Sutton covers corn earworm pressure and control options in soybeans.

This edition of CabCast is on the road for a special edition—broadcasting live from the Virginia Ag Expo in Doswell, VA. Join us as we connect with Virginia Tech and Virginia State University specialists, graduate students, and Virginia Cooperative Extension agents to share fresh insights, field updates, and the latest in Virginia agriculture.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we review a diagnostic case in tomatoes with input from our specialists.

This podcast, produced in collaboration with Virginia Cooperative Extension and the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore Agricultural Research and Extension Center, brings listeners timely conversations on agriculture and the latest applied research. In this episode, we review a diagnostic case in tomatoes with input from our specialists.