Some recent articles from UW Fruit Program. Irrigation Recommendations for Fruit Crops During Drought Grape Scouting Report: A “Mixed Bag” First Spotted-Wing Drosophila Detected and Tarnished Plant Bug Populations Increasing Black Stem Borer Grape Cultivar …
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4 New Bumper Crops Videos
In this “Bumper Crops” episode, an overview of the techniques and benefits of roller crimping rye are discussed by Extension Specialists Erin Silva, Organic Production, and Damon Smith, Field Crops Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In …
Frost During Early Corn Development and its Effect on Yield
Joe Lauer, Corn Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison This article originally posted on Lauer’s Corn Agronomy blog. This morning I received a series of texts from a crop consultant whose clients were concerned about the effect …
Armyworms
Bryan Jensen, Dept. of Entomology and IPM Program I have had several messages from consultants wondering about armyworms. Are they here? Have there been problems? Am I missing anything? To date, I do not know …
Wisconsin Winter Wheat Disease Update – May 28
Damon Smith, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison Winter wheat in Southern and South-central Wisconsin is quickly approaching anthesis. By early next week the window of opportunity to apply fungicide for Fusarium head blight …
Will My Wheat and Soybean Crop Freeze
Shawn P. Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist, University of Wisconsin Well folks its the end of May and frost is in the air. I figured we would be getting some questions about the impact …
Eight More Weed Identification Factsheets Available
Mark Renz UW Madison Professor and Extension Specialist Test your knowledge on identification of common weed species found in Wisconsin with four new and four updated weed identification factsheets (see table below). These describe key …
Insects that reduce plant stands, Wireworms and seedcorn maggot
Bryan Jensen, Dept of Entomology and IPM Program Many things that can lower corn and soybean plant stands. Insects are only one. However, they are one factor that should be considered for those “less-than-optimal” stands. …
Vegetable Crop Updates 4, 5, 6
Amanda Gevens, Professor & Extension Specialist, Plant Pathology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison UW-Madison Division of Extension Vegetable Crop Update #6 In this issue please find updates on the onion maggot ‘peak’ in southern WI and …
Survey on Digital Agriculture Technologies
Kaiping Chen, Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison If you have been working in the agricultural sector, we would like to invite you for participating in this 10-15 minute survey: https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_73BOd6nBioxV178. You must …