As your chores shift from planting to crop scouting, you notice some deficiencies in your field that need to be corrected. Or maybe you have four file folders full of yield maps and you are wondering how to make them pay off.
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The ethanol market has been high octane lately. Private Chinese buyers are coming to buy US corn. Livestock numbers are up and feed demand will be high.
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Only time and weather patterns will tell whether Asian soybean rust moves into the Midwest this year and, so far, neither is talking, said Greg Shaner, Purdue University plant pathologist.
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Soybean growers have an added decision-making tool in scouting for the soybean aphid.
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Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and operators.
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Recent popular media stories have sought to raise the specter of a conflict in food versus fuel as our nation moves toward less reliance on costly imported oil.
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Their origin is still unknown, but spores found in a spore trap near Houston, Texas are thought to be Asian soybean rust. According to a Dow Jones Newswire story, the spores were discovered May 11 in a trap operated by Syngenta.
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Ohio growers should be scouting their fields on a weekly basis to assess the level of populations and subsequent damage from a myriad of pests now making an appearance in corn and soybean fields.
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Agriculture is being asked to contribute to the energy industry in a much larger way in coming years.
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Here’s the lastest issue from Nebraska.
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