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.
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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.
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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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Plaintiffs say company unfairly dominates market years after Roundup patent expired.
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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.
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Here’s even more great performance data from GLH.
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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.
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On Sunday/Monday, there was a huge flight of soybean aphid gynoparae (winged females) from soybeans to buckthorn.
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For the second year in a row, 5711Bt Wins the Macomb Early F.I.R.S.T. Trial!
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