News Archives for July 2008

IL: Pest and Crop Bulletin

July 31, 2008

Issue no. 19 of the Bulletin—pest management and crop development information for Illinois is now available on the Web.

Purdue: Late Planted Corn: Enough Time to Mature?

July 31, 2008

As Indiana’s corn crop enters the final stretch of the season, folks with late-planted corn are looking ahead on the calendar and wondering whether their fields will mature safely before the arrival of a killing fall freeze.

Missouri Integrated Pest & Crop Management Newsletter

July 31, 2008

Here’s the latest report from the Univ. of Missouri.

ISU: One-on-One with Elwynn Taylor

July 31, 2008

Iowa State University Agricultural Meteorologist Elwynn Taylor says late planting of crops and le...

Soybean Aphids: You Have Diligently Counted Them, But How Do You Know When To Spray?

July 31, 2008

Admittedly, there is considerable confusion in determining the threshold levels of insects prior to spraying a crop.

Two New Guides on Soybean Aphids Now Available

July 31, 2008

Knowing how to manage and “speed scout” soybean aphids just got easier, thanks to two new pocket-sized publications authored by Iowa State University Extension entomologists Marlin Rice and Matt O’Neal.

Purdue: Pest&Crop Report

July 31, 2008

Hi everyone – Here is the next issue of the Pest&Crop Newsletter for the 2008 season!

Farm Journal: Yield Monitor Secrets

July 31, 2008

Here’s a link to a good article in the current issue

ISU: Unusual Foliar Diseases Showing Up In Iowa Corn

July 30, 2008

Samples of two leaf spots that occur in Iowa from time to time, have been identified by Iowa State University plant pathologists, as Holcus leaf spot and Physoderma brown spot.

UNL CropWatch

July 29, 2008

The following stories have been added to the July 25 issue of CropWatch, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension newsletter on crop production and pest management.

OSU’s C.O.R.N. Newsletter

July 29, 2008

Here’s the next update from The Ohio State University.

ISU’s ICM Newsletter Updates

July 29, 2008

New articles in the ICM Newsletter for the week of 7/21/2008 – 7/27/2008.

MSU: Don’t Forget Soybean Aphid

July 26, 2008

Winged soybean aphids are beginning to build and show up in the Midwest suction traps network.

OSU’s C.O.R.N. Newsletter

July 26, 2008

Here’s the latest issue from OSU.

Dodd: Corn Maturity

July 25, 2008

The following newsletter is from Professional Seed Research, Inc.

ISU: Fungicide resources in Iowa

July 25, 2008

What seems to be becoming another Iowa tradition also started earlier this week in our area.

ISU: Fungicides on corn

July 25, 2008

There has been a lot of interest in the use of fungicides to increase corn grain yields.

UNL CropWatch

July 25, 2008

New crop production and pest management stories have been posted to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln CropWatch Web site

Purdue: Corn Fungicide Hoopla 2008

July 25, 2008

Click here to read Bob Nielsen’s latest article

MSU: Western Bean Cutworm over threshold in NW Michigan

July 24, 2008

All – WBC is over threshold in some fields in NW Michigan. There is flight elsewhere. This week and next is likely our spray window. Additional info is below.

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Purdue: Pest&Crop Newsletter

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