Many areas within the Midwest cornbelt are experiencing extreme stalk rot issues.
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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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After 10 years in the field, biotech corn is still under debate from some quarters. A new study from Iowa State University, released today, offers evidence that the presence of Bt corn in a field has less impact on organisms present than the nutritional quality of the corn itself.
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Here’s the latest update from the University of Missouri.
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Clients soon will be calling about lady beetles congregating on the sides of homes and infesting buildings. This phenomenon has become an all-too-common autumn event throughout Kentucky and much of the United States.
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Bean Late last week, Rod Grusey (Hardin Co KY ANR agent) reported a significant soybean stem borer infestation in a 60 acre LaRue county field (planted May 15).
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Here’s the latest from the University of Wisconsin Crop Manager.
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Asian soybean rust has been confirmed for the first time this year in North Carolina, in Columbus County on the border with South Carolina. The find joins two more in Georgia and another in Louisiana since Tuesday.
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The 2006 corn and soybean crops may both be the second largest in U.S. history, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast on Tuesday, and they may be tough to get out of the field this fall.
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