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Fancy colored yield maps are fine for verifying grain yields at the end of the harvest season, but bragging rights for the highest corn yields are established earlier than that down at the Main Street Cafe, on the corner of 5th and Earl.
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The scuttlebutt heard in many coffee shops in Indiana these days is that folks are walking corn fields and finding a gamut of kernel set success ranging from excellent to pathetic. Growers’ interest in this topic obviously lies with the fact that the number of kernels per ear is a rather important component of total grain yield per acre for corn.
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Gaucho, a seed-applied insecticide, has gained EPA approval for use on soybean seed to protect against soybean aphids and bean leaf beetles, Bayer CropScience announced last week.
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8/9/2005 – URBANA, Ill.—The 2005 corn and soybean crops will be small enough that year-ending stocks will likely be reduced significantly during the year ahead, said Darrel Good, University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist. Will the crops be large enough to allow consumption to continue at the current record pace, or will production be small enough to require a reduction in use?
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By Donald Hershman, Plant Pathologist, University of Kentucky

As of August 4, there is no confirmed soybean rust anywhere near Kentucky. However, the University of Kentucky Plant Disease Diagnostic Lab at Princeton has received numerous samples of soybean sudden death syndrome (SDS).
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Although severe drought conditions have been taking a toll on cornfields throughout Illinois, many growers are reporting that the triple-stacked Great Lakes G3 hybrids, with in-plant corn borer and rootworm protection, are standing up to the dry, hot weather much better than conventional corn.
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August 8, 2005
By Bob Fernandez, The Philadelphia Inquirer via Checkbiotech

Midwest farmers turned this year to a Monsanto Company seed that works with a popular weed-killer and fends off two potentially devastating pests.
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By Jeremy Smith
BRUSSELS, Aug 8 (Reuters) – The European Union authorised imports of a genetically modified (GMO) maize on Monday, the third GMO product to win approval since the EU ended its unofficial biotech ban last year, officials said.
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Columbia, Missouri – August 8, 2005

Laura Sweets, MU Extension plant pathologist, discusses how a spore trap works during a recent field day. A single, “rust-like” spore was identified on a slide submitted for examination the week of July 25 from such a trap located in Boone County. Sweets does not recommend that producers spray fungicides for Asian soybean rust at this time.
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