This may be a good time to put your sprayer in a safe place for the winter, unless you intend to spray for winter annual weeds after grain harvest. The most important thing is to clean it thoroughly before storage.
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This may be a good time to put your sprayer in a safe place for the winter, unless you intend to spray for winter annual weeds after grain harvest. The most important thing is to clean it thoroughly before storage.
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We often think in terms of actual yield, but dry corn is worth more than wet corn. How much higher yield do you need to offset the drying costs of wetter corn?
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The Commission will transmit to the Council a proposal to authorise a genetically modified (GM) soybean after Member States did not endorse it today during a meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health (SCoFCAH).
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The AccuWeather.com Agricultural Forecast Center reports a scattered frost may nip the soybean crop in the upper Midwest early next week.
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The wind storm from Hurricane Ike that swept across the state during the weekend of September 13-14 caused considerable damage in several corn fields, leaving huge sections of some fields with plants either laying flat on the ground and broken off at various heights along the stalk.
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The remnant of Hurricane Ike moved through southern Indiana about two weeks ago packing winds in excess of 60 mph that caused damage to corn crops ranging from mild stalk lodging to nearly totally flat fields.
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New articles in the ICM Newsletter for the week of 9/22/2008 – 9/28/2008.
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We’ve had a lot of moisture lately. Although the season should be winding down, late planting has led to later maturing fields, which has many producers worried about ear and stalk rots and even seed germinating on the cob.
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With yesterday being the first day of fall, it’s appropriate to announce that fall harvest is underway.
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With windblown corn in various conditions, from leaning stalks to plants on the ground, harvesting may be a challenge this fall, but Ohio expert cautions not to forget safety in the haste to salvage crop losses.
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