ISU’s ICM Newsletter
June 30, 2008
New articles in the ICM Newsletter for the week of 6/23/2008 – 6/29/2008.
June 30, 2008
New articles in the ICM Newsletter for the week of 6/23/2008 – 6/29/2008.
June 30, 2008
MGR Bulletin 08-009 permits additional time (until August 15, 2008) to submit acreage reports for 2008 crop year spring seeded crops in certain States.
June 30, 2008
Some corn has shifted up into road gear, and it looks pretty good. Other corn fields are stuck in idle as the days of summer are now getting shorter.
June 30, 2008
In addition to fields, floodwaters have claimed homes, farm buildings and grain bins this spring, creating permanent damage to improvements on thousands of Cornbelt farms and destroying millions of bushels of stored grain.
June 30, 2008
U.S. farmers seeded more acres with corn than they indicated in March as prices rose to a record, the government said. Soybean acres were reduced as the worst flooding in 15 years interfered with late-seeding plans.
June 30, 2008
The following stories have been posted to this week’s issue of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension newsletter CropWatch.
June 27, 2008
In the past week, I have viewed several corn fields around the Vassar, MI, area which are believed to be infested with Holcus leaf spot.
June 26, 2008
Peter Scharf, University of Missouri, said, "After a long, wet spring, I’m getting questions about possible nitrogen loss from all over Missouri and even from other states.
June 26, 2008
Hi everyone – Here is the next issue of the Pest&Crop Newsletter for the 2008 season!
June 26, 2008
I am pleased to present you with WCM Issue 16 of June 26, 2008.
June 26, 2008
Issue no. 14 of the Bulletin—pest management and crop development information for Illinois is now available on the Web.
June 26, 2008
The current topic has been updated. The topic Corn Yield Predictions for Replanted and Late-Planted Fields discusses the risks and predicted yields of corn planted late in Iowa.
June 25, 2008
Yield loss from hail damage is based on reductions in plant population and leaf area.
June 25, 2008
Inexpensive and abundant corn helped move the ethanol industry onto the alternative fuels fast lane.
June 25, 2008
Where soybean stands have been devastated by hailstorms, drowning, or some other factor, producers may be thinking about replanting, said Kraig Roozeboom, K-State Research and Extension crop production specialist.
June 25, 2008
Monday’s USDA ‘Iowa Crops & Weather’ report documents well the serious status of our corn crop.
June 25, 2008
In the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was an ongoing debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the various sources of fertilizer nitrogen.
June 23, 2008
Many weather-induced challenges continue to plague Illinois farmers across large areas of the state.
February 8, 2010
Producers wanting to add to or improve the forage species in their existing pastures should consider using either the frost seeding method in February and early March, or interseeding later in the spring months.
February 4, 2010
Get below the surface to probe why yields excelled.
February 3, 2010
Ohio growers may be concerned about moldy grain and vomitoxin development in storage, but they shouldn’t rely on chemical treatments to prevent any further contamination, said an Ohio State University Extension plant pathologist.
February 2, 2010
At the Jan. 8 Ag Research Update session at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center at Lamberton, Dean Malvick, University of Minnesota Extension plant pathologist, told Minnesota crop consultants there’s a new disease needing attention.