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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Dear CropWatch Subscribers: The August 25 CropWatch has been posted to the Web.
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A new issue of Michigan State University’s Field Crop CAT Alert has been posted.
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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.
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The John Deere Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour issued its corn yield estimate and average soybean pod total for Illinois Wednesday night.
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A new 16-page pocket field guide for soybean diseases is available to growers from the soybean checkoff and the United Soybean Board.
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The past week once again provided some much-needed rain in areas of northern and western Wisconsin. The state’s agriculture department stated in its weekly crop/weather summary on Monday that soil moisture conditions are now at seven percent very short, 28 percent short, 64 percent adequate, and one percent surplus.
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Stalk rot development is a complex problem. Although the pathogens may be present, healthy corn plants can resist infection and spread of the disease for much of the growing season.
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This is the new issue from the Ohio State University.
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