December 21, 2005
USDA’s juggling of its corn balance sheet left the expected carryover next August at an 18 year high. By reducing export estimates Extension Specialist Darrel Good says we will have 2.419 bil. bu. which is 22.5% of the projected consumption during the current marketing year. He says that stocks-to-use ratio would be the highest in 13 years.
December 20, 2005
The F.I.R.S.T. Tests have released their 2005 Results in the current issue of Corn-Soybean Digest. Here are the Zone Summaries:
December 20, 2005
GREENSBORO, N.C. December 15, 2005 ― Cruiser®Maxx® Pak (or FastBreak CP from Great Lakes Hybrids) proved its strength and value during its first year of commercial use. CruiserMaxx Pak-treated soybeans showed stronger stands, better plant vigor and quicker canopy, ultimately flourishing into a high-yielding crop.
December 20, 2005
Because of disease-favorable weather in 2004, gray leaf spot and northern leaf blight were potential threats to the 2005 crop. However, dry weather was so prevalent in the 2005 growing season that it helped suppress these and other leaf diseases.
December 19, 2005
Three-year summary of corn rootworm control products by Marlin E. Rice and Jim D. Oleson, Department of Entomology
December 19, 2005
Attention Ag. Contacts, We have attached the most recent edition of Sangamon-Menard Extension’s “Crop Update” for your use. Please feel free to forward this information to your peers and contact us with the addresses of those you would like to see added to our “Crop Update” e-mail list.
December 19, 2005
Purdue University researchers have discovered that a winter weed common throughout Indiana helps soybean cyst nematode survive and reproduce, even when soybeans are not present in a field.
December 15, 2005
December 16 – Ovid, Mich. – Great Lakes Hybrids won 18 state champions out of its 52 entries in the 2005 National Corn Growers Association’s National Corn Yield Contest. Great Lakes had six winners in Kentucky, three in Michigan and Tennessee, two each in Illinois and Ohio and one in Indiana and Missouri.
December 15, 2005
Farmers experience year -on-year improvements from biotech crops WASHINGTON, D.C. (Dec. 6, 2005) — As a result of increasing benefits from biotechnology -derived (biotech) crop varieties, farmers are adopting the technology with greater ease than ever before, according to a new study update released by the National Center of Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP).
December 13, 2005
Trait Decisions In Corn – Part I: Don’t Forget About Performance Mark Loux, Ron Hammond, Bruce Eisley, Peter Thomison Corn hybrid selection is becoming more complicated, as companies increasingly introduce specific traits that are contained in the seed and incorporated into seed prices.
December 12, 2005
From Farmgate.com (U of I’s new agricultural blog): The purple deadnettle thriving in your fields this winter has a nasty secret just discovered by agronomists at Purdue. Those cute little plants, which some Master Gardeners will sell to each other at their spring plant sales, have been found to serve as hosts for soybean cyst nematodes when there are no soybeans in that field; either during the winter or when the field is planted to corn. “SCN infests purple deadnettle roots, just like they do on a susceptible soybean variety,” said Bill Johnson, a Purdue weed scientist. To protect soybean plants from the pest, researchers are trying to find the best timing to control purple deadnettle to reduce nematode densities.
December 12, 2005
Soy Capital Ag Services just released their data and here’s our super results from those corn trials:
December 12, 2005
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (KRT) via NewsEdge Corporation : The Illinois Farm Bureau is urging a fresh look at federal laws that bar farmers from keeping patented plants’ seeds from one year to the next.
December 12, 2005
Agricultural decision-makers have a new place to start their day: “The Farm Gate”, an Internet blog updated daily by University of Illinois Extension.
December 8, 2005
Corn-after-corn production may be less profitable than soybean production in 2006, meaning the recent trend of increasing corn production may end, according to a University of Illinois Extension study.
December 8, 2005
12/05/2005 URBANA, Ill. — While other factors will influence corn and soybean prices over the next few months — particularly South American weather and crop conditions — a continuation of the current slow pace of export sales would limit price rallies, said University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist Darrel Good.
December 8, 2005
12/07/2005 URBANA, Ill. — Corn-after-corn production may be less profitable than soybean production in 2006, meaning the recent trend of increasing corn production may end, according to a University of Illinois Extension study.
December 7, 2005
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2005 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) today launched its newly redesigned web site.
December 7, 2005
During the last decade, opinions about the potential for weeds to evolve resistance to glyphosate have changed dramatically. The prevailing industry perspective in the early 1990’s was that due to the complexity of the glyphosate mechanism of action and other purported reasons, weeds would never evolve resistance to glyphosate.
December 7, 2005
As a result of increasing benefits from biotechnology-derived (biotech) crop varieties, farmers are adopting the technology with greater ease than ever before, according to a new study update released by the National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy (NCFAP).
September 2, 2010
Two more posted this week: High Night-Time Temperatures and Stalk Cannibalization in Corn Anth...
August 31, 2010
C.O.R.N. Newsletter 2010-28 08/31/10-09/07/10 Editor: Andrew Kleinschmidt
August 30, 2010
An ancient offshoot of soybeans may one day provide resistance to sudden death syndrome (SDS) and soybean rust, University of Illinois scientists reported at the recent U of I Agronomy Day.
