Harvest Progress Underway
September 29, 2006
Harvest is underway across the country. Here, the managers of F.I.R.S.T. (Farmer’s Independent Research of Seed Technologies) will provide a weekly snapshot of how corn and soybeans are yielding.
September 29, 2006
Harvest is underway across the country. Here, the managers of F.I.R.S.T. (Farmer’s Independent Research of Seed Technologies) will provide a weekly snapshot of how corn and soybeans are yielding.
September 29, 2006
University of Georgia professor Richard Hussey has spent 20 years studying a worm-shaped parasite too small to see without a microscope. His discovery is vastly bigger. Hussey and his research team have found a way to halt the damage caused by one of the world’s most destructive groups of plant pathogens.
September 29, 2006
Plaintiffs say company unfairly dominates market years after Roundup patent expired.
September 29, 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.
September 29, 2006
MADISON — The world’s most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a new study has found.
September 28, 2006
On Sunday/Monday, there was a huge flight of soybean aphid gynoparae (winged females) from soybeans to buckthorn.
September 28, 2006
Here’s even more great performance data from GLH.
September 28, 2006
Once again, Great Lakes Hybrids are showing nice performance advantages in our own GAP (Generations Ahead Plots) and NET (New Experimental Trials) plots. The early F.I.R.S.T. data that has been coming in independently backs up our performance as well.
September 27, 2006
For the second year in a row, 5711Bt Wins the Macomb Early F.I.R.S.T. Trial!
September 27, 2006
Corn harvest is slow to get going this year, with only 5% of the state’s crop reported harvested as of 24 Sep (USDA-NASS, 25 Sep 2006).
September 26, 2006
5711Bt placed SECOND at the Grand Ridge F.I.R.S.T. Trial – Early Season. 5961G3 placed 9th ...
September 26, 2006
Grain harvest is in full swing across the state. It is not too late to review basic on-farm grain storage principles for maintaining quality of stored commodities.
September 25, 2006
How do you plan to market your 2006 grain crop? Futures prices remain relatively strong, yet a wide basis makes for a discounted cash price in many areas for the time being.
September 25, 2006
Before Indiana farmers get swept up in harvesting corn and soybean crops this fall they should take a broom to the storage bins where they’ll put all that grain, said a Purdue University agricultural engineer.
September 22, 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.
September 21, 2006
The last issue of the 2006 season of the Field Crop CAT Alert has been posted.
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.