Seasonal Refreshers by Bob Nielsen, Purdue Univ.
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All of you know that corn planting is late across the state this year. According to the Kentucky Field Office of the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, about 73% of the corn was planted by May 18, compared to 90% planted for the five-year average and 95% planted by this time last year.
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Extension center educators, unit educators, and unit assistants in northern, west-central, east-central, and southern Illinois prepare regional reports to provide more localized insight into pest situations and crop conditions in Illinois.
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I traveled from Champaign to near Mt. Vernon on May 19, stopping to assess heading date of the wheat varieties at Brownstown, to see fields and crops, and to attend a wheat field event south of Centralia.
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The current Illinois corn crop exhibits a broad array of sizes and growth stages, ranging from areas of central and west-central Illinois with plants large enough to be treated with postemergence herbicides to southern Illinois stands requiring replanting due to overabundant precipitation. The following comments focus mainly on replanting corn where precipitation has been excessive.
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With wet weather and cool soils affecting corn emergence, some corn growers have decided to replant or are contemplating it.
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Not surprisingly, this year’s cool, wet spring is expected to delay the hatch of corn rootworm larvae across Illinois.
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At the end of the week of May 12 and beginning of the week of May 19, we received our first reports of signs of black cutworm larval activity.
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Hi everyone – Here is the next issue of the Pest&Crop Newsletter for the 2008 season!
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Many of us, including myself, have planted under less than ideal soil conditions this spring.
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