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Last week, Great Lakes hybrids posted a new video on the home page of their website that outlines grower experiences with Great Lakes and their products. When you get a few minutes, please stop by and check it out.
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Dear Clint,
This week, we look at how to limit some of the yield reducing factors: insects and weeds, and how to make the best of a late first planting (or replanting) situtation.
Remember to check the agronomy article archives, as we are posting about 20-30 new agronomic articles every week on the website. |
Planting or replanting?
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It's halfway through May and the corn belt has seen dramatic differences in weather... too wet in the west, too dry in the east.
Some farmers have been
lucky enough to finish corn planting and move into beans. Others have
yet to pull the planter into the field. Visits with several crop
production specialists provide a good analysis of how the crop is going
to react to late planting and what we can expect from it at harvest. Here's our weekly breakdown of the current topics: - Flooding: KSU, SDSU, NE, ISU
- Wet conditions / soil crusting: ISU, ISU
- Seedling Diseases: MO, NE
- Overall seedling growth and development
- Scouting early season corn: WI
- Increased planting speed can cost yield
- Watch your soybean seed drop rates
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Early season insect issues
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 Early-season insects can be huge yield-robbers. Here's what the universities are talking about this week for insects:
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Early Weed Control
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 Many issues have cropped up in the past couple of weeks about early season weed control. Here are some links to those articles.
- Dry weather and herbicide effectiveness: Purdue, OSU
- Delayed spraying of pre- or early post herbicides for corn: PSU, MSU
- Roundup Ready Soybean weed control: NE, MSU
- Herbicide injury: WI
- Row spacing on velvetleaf control: NE
- Killing RR corn for replanting: Purdue
- Using herbicides and tillage to control large weeds: OSU
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