Soybean Rust Data from MSU
June 30, 2006
Hello All – Just a quick update on soybean aphid. Two forms of aphid data are now free on the web:
June 30, 2006
Hello All – Just a quick update on soybean aphid. Two forms of aphid data are now free on the web:
June 30, 2006
The soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is a serious pest, even though soybeans can be produced profitably in infested fields.
June 30, 2006
Some of Ohio’s soybean fields are facing flooding injury due to heavy rains that have swept across the state over the past few weeks, but the injury is not likely a total loss to the crop.
June 30, 2006
Frozen precipitation has thrown a chill into many Indiana corn and soybean farmers.
June 30, 2006
Asian soybean rust has been confirmed in soybean sentinel plots on the east side of Mobile Bay in Alabama. Alabama officials say growers in south and central Alabama shoudl strongly consider spraying immediately if their crop is at bloom or at a later reproductive stage.
June 29, 2006
The number of capture Japanese beetles in southern Illinois skyrocketed shortly after a warning from the University of Illinois Extension department.
June 29, 2006
American Seeds Inc., a Monsanto Company subsidiary, announced it will be adding five new brands to its existing line of regional brands.
June 29, 2006
A new issues of Michigan State University’s Field Crop Advisory Team (CAT) Alert has been posted.
June 29, 2006
Issue no. 14 of the Bulletin—pest management and crop development information for Illinois is now available on the Web.
June 28, 2006
Drought conditions are beginning to settle into the central Cornbelt as rainfall in most of this region has been less than half normal levels in the last 30 days.
June 28, 2006
Welcome to Sangamon-Menard Extension’s June 23rd edition of “Crop Update.” This publication is updated weekly during the growing season.
June 27, 2006
When Monsanto Co. developed its newest strain of engineered soybeans, the company did not use gene splicing. It used math.
June 27, 2006
Bayer CropScience AG, Monheim, Germany, and FMC Corporation, Philadelphia, USA, announced today that Bayer CropScience has acquired the rights to FMC’s insecticides discovery pipeline.
June 27, 2006
Anthracnose is one of the most common stalk rot diseases faced by corn growers in the United States. In fact, yield losses due to anthracnose stalk rot can reach as high as 40 percent through reduced ear size and stalk lodging.
June 26, 2006
According to Webster, to muse is to consider or to ponder. So, considering the explosion of iron deficiency chlorosis in the week of June 19 through 23, it seems appropriate to attempt to explain the cause and to ponder about what might be expected with this problem during the remainder of the summer.
June 26, 2006
Low numbers of first generation corn borer larvae have infested non Bt corn in Nebraska and most of the High Plains.
February 8, 2010
Producers wanting to add to or improve the forage species in their existing pastures should consider using either the frost seeding method in February and early March, or interseeding later in the spring months.
February 4, 2010
Get below the surface to probe why yields excelled.
February 3, 2010
Ohio growers may be concerned about moldy grain and vomitoxin development in storage, but they shouldn’t rely on chemical treatments to prevent any further contamination, said an Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist.
February 2, 2010
At the Jan. 8 Ag Research Update session at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center at Lamberton, Dean Malvick, University of Minnesota Extension plant pathologist, told Minnesota crop consultants there’s a new disease needing attention.