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Recent WCM articles

High Value Straw and Weedy Wheat… What Do I Do?
Shawn P. Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist, Department of Agronomy Wet fields, thin stands and spotty winter-kill made spring weed control difficult to impossible in many winter wheat fields, and prolonged wet conditions have …
July 16, 2019
Wisconsin Crop Manager Newsletter, July 11, 2019
The 13th issue of the 2019 Wisconsin Crop Manager. All the WCM blog articles from the past week are compiled into one PDF.
July 11, 2019
Wisconsin Soybean White Mold Update – July 11, 2019
Damon Smith, Shawn Conley, & Roger Schmidt Figure 1 illustrates the calculated risk of white mold for select Wisconsin locations for non-irrigated soybeans, as determined by Sporecaster for July 11, 2019. This means that if …
July 11, 2019
Wisconsin Corn Tar Spot Update for July 11, 2019 – Frass Happens!
Damon Smith, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Figure 1 shows the calculated risk from Tarspotter for July 11, 2019, for various locations in Wisconsin. Figure 2 shows the risk …
July 11, 2019
Armyworms In July
Bryan Jensen, UW Department of Entomology and Division of Extension A phone call from Shawn Conley indicated some possible armyworm problems in soybean after a rye cover crop. Sounds out of the ordinary?? Maybe not. …
July 10, 2019
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