Purdue Pest & Crop Newsletter
September 3, 2010
Here is Issue 23 of the Pest&Crop Newsletter
August 24, 2006 Agronomy
This summer, Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters across the Corn Belt participated in Monsanto’s sticky trap monitoring program to help growers in 11 Midwestern states monitor and better manage corn rootworms.
The objective of the program, now in its second season, is to create grower awareness about the spread of corn rootworm variants and the potential threat they pose to corn acres.
Here’s the link to the preliminary data, which can be sorted by state and county
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.