We’ve posted two PDF files with the latest performance data from Stalwart Alfalfa with StandFast technology!

Data Set 1

Data Set 2

Drought-stressed corn, sorghum, and sudan grasses must be managed to avoid potential nitrate poisoning.
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Insect Management – 2nd generation ECBs in flight – Watch for spider mites in corn – Greenbugs present in many sorghum fields – Scout sunflower for insects
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Volume 50 – Number 16 – Date 07/29/2005

European corn borer – Emergence of the summer flight of corn borer moths has peaked near Beloit, Lone Rock, Madison, Sullivan and LaCrosse, where 1733 GDD50 have been reached. First instar larvae can be found in south central, southwest and west central cornfields. The treatment window for second generation corn borer larvae remains open for another 17-19 days in these districts, or until 2100 GDD50 have accumulated.
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7/29/2005—COLUMBIA, Mo. – It’s a bug-eat-bug world out there. So far, predatory insects are winning the bean field wars against invading soybean aphids that flew into fields on a University of Missouri research farm.
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Now is the time to begin evaluating corn fields for late-season European and southwestern corn borer activity.
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The new issue is posted and has nice articles on YieldGard Rootworm hybrids and Soybean Cyst Nematode.
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The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is reminding corn growers the Aug. 1 deadline for the 2005 National Corn Yield Contest (NCYC) is fast approaching. To celebrate the contest’s 40th anniversary NCGA is also announcing drawings that will send winning entrants to the 2006 Commodity Classic in Anaheim, Calif.
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