By WCM Staff on 3/26/2009 2:22 PM

WCM issue for March 26, 2009  >>> WCM 16-4, Mar 26

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By WCM Staff on 3/26/2009 1:13 PM

Announcement of the 2009 Agronomy and Soils Field Day. It will be held on Thursday, August 27^th at the Arlington Agricultural Research Station.

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By WCM Staff on 3/26/2009 12:32 PM

The decision process for foliar fungicides starts with knowing the variety of wheat planted in the fall.  The goal when considering yield and economics is that you want to cover the total cost of the fungicide application. 

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By WCM Staff on 3/12/2009 2:14 PM

This is a PDF download to view, print, or save. This file contains all WCM articles since the previous issue.

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By WCM Staff on 3/12/2009 12:41 PM

My weed science colleagues at the University of Missouri have many years of experience in managing waterhemp, including waterhemp biotypes that are glyphosate, ALS-, and PPO-inhibitor resistant. This winter they published a new bulletin focused on waterhemp management in corn and soybean.

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By WCM Staff on 3/12/2009 12:35 PM

Unless a person deals with these types of calculations frequently, they may be a challenge. With this article, I will demonstrate how you can make these types of conversions and the information that you need.

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By WCM Staff on 3/12/2009 12:30 PM

During the past five years, no cases of glyphosate-resistant weeds have been documented in Wisconsin while most other Midwest states have reported one or more glyphosate-resistant weeds such as giant ragweed, common ragweed, waterhemp or horseweed.

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By WCM Staff on 3/2/2009 3:01 PM

The 2009 Healthy Grown/Protected Harvest potato certification season is ready to begin. Healthy Grown fresh market potatoes are certified and sold as an environmentally responsible produce option, and have been available since 2001.  Currently, about 10% of Wisconsin’s fresh market potatoes are certified under the program.  For more information about the program, visit www.healthygrown.com. 

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By WCM Staff on 2/13/2009 10:26 AM

Click to open WCM issue 1  >>>  WCM 2009-2 

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By WCM Staff on 2/12/2009 3:15 PM

By early August 2008, reports started coming in to county extension offices and the University of Wisconsin of soybean fields with symptoms similar to Phytophthora root rot (PRR). Because many of these fields were planted to varieties containing the Rps 1k gene, serious concern arose over the breakdown of resistance to PRR conferred by this gene.

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By WCM Staff on 2/12/2009 3:12 PM

Dr. Ruark is developing many new research and extension projects related to nutrient management of grain, potato and vegetable, organic, and biofuel production systems. Feel free to contact Dr. Ruark anytime with questions or comments (mdruark@wisc.edu).

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By WCM Staff on 2/12/2009 3:10 PM

The course will be held in two locations. Both training sessions will cover the same material. The first session will be offered at the Eau Claire County Exposition Center on February 25^th. The second session will be offered at the West Madison Research Station on February 27^th.

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By WCM Staff on 2/12/2009 3:04 PM

The goal of weed management is to maximize corn yield potential. Killing weeds is just a necessary step to achieve that goal.  Of course, the critical part in reaching the goal of yield protection is killing the weeds on time, which leads to two interesting observations about weed management in Wisconsin.

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By WCM Staff on 2/12/2009 3:01 PM

The publication’s objective is to help farmers evaluate the economic potential of using red clover as a green manure cover crop, providing biologically fixed nitrogen to the following year’s corn crop. This is in addition to the soil quality, soil conservation and weed suppression benefits likely to accrue. Direct link to file >>  Frost Seeding Red Clover file 

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