May 31, 2006
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.
May 31, 2006
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.
May 31, 2006
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.
May 26, 2006
Soybean growers have an added decision-making tool in scouting for the soybean aphid.
May 26, 2006
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.
May 26, 2006
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.
May 26, 2006
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.
May 26, 2006
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.
May 26, 2006
Agriculture is being asked to contribute to the energy industry in a much larger way in coming years.
May 26, 2006
Here’s the latest issue from the University of Missouri.
May 26, 2006
Issue no. 9 of the Bulletin—pest management and crop development information for Illinois is now available on the Web.
May 26, 2006
A new issue of Michigan State University’s Field Crop CAT Alert has been posted.
May 26, 2006
Outside of finishing planting the crop in soggy areas, monitoring bean leaf beetle populations are one of the first tasks you face this year.
May 25, 2006
Iowa is considering banning manure as a soybean fertilizer. The Iowa Environmental Protection Commission contends that adding manure to soybean crops causes an overflow of nitrogen to the fields and poses a water-contamination risk.
May 25, 2006
As we progress through May, interest in the annual hatch of corn rootworm larvae increases. A quick review of the past 10 years reveals that hatch very often coincides with the Memorial Day weekend celebration:
May 25, 2006
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.
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.
