Shawn P. Conley, Department of Agronomy, and Damon Smith, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Though farmers continue to struggle to get their crops established in #plant19 we are starting to see the first …
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First Thoughts on Managing your Prevent Plant Acres
Shawn P. Conley, Department of Agronomy, and Damon Smith, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison I want to start out this blog being very clear and honest…… I don’t exactly know what the right …
Wisconsin Fruit News- Volume 4, Issue 4
Christelle Guedot, Fruit Crop Entomology and Extension Specialist, Wisconsin-Madison Fruit Program WFN–Vol 4, Issue 4 (May 24, 2019) Plant Disease Diagnostic Update Risks and Benefits of reducing herbicide rates Insect Diagnostic Lab Update Winter Damaged …
New Video: Palmer amaranth and Herbicide Resistance, detected in Wisconsin
Dr. Rodrigo Werle Assistant Professor & Weed Specialist Department of Agronomy Another Herbicide-Resistant Palmer amaranth population detected in Wisconsin. In 2018, Dr. Rodrigo Werle detected Palmer amaranth in a soybean field in south-central Wisconsin. Palmer …
Corn Replant/Late-plant Decisions in Wisconsin
Dr. Joe Lauer, UW-Madison Agronomy and Extension State Corn Specialist Many areas of Wisconsin are faced with a late-planting situation for corn. Please see the first publication pictured below (http://corn.agronomy.wisc.edu/Pubs/UWEX/A3353.pdf) for guidelines on yield impacts …
Is Strip-till a Useful Soil Management Tool for Wisconsin Corn and Soybean Production?
Shawn P. Conley, Department of Agronomy, and Damon Smith, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison IN A BEAN POD Strip-till reduced penetration resistance in the root zone of strip-till rows. Soybean seed yield was …
Adjust Your Seeding Rate (Higher) But Not Your Maturity Group For Late May Planted Soybean
Adapted from original article written in 2018 by Authors: S.P.Conley, J.M Gaska, S. Mourtiznis, D. Mueller, and A. Varenhorst With only 11 days left in May and roughly only 19% of the Midwestern soybean crop …
How Will Delayed Planting Influence Crop Diseases in 2019?
Damon Smith, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Darcy Telenko, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Purdue University We keep getting this question, because as we write this, it is storming yet again in many locations …
Wisconsin Winter Wheat Disease Update – May 21, 2019
Damon Smith, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Brian Mueller, Assistant Field Researcher, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Winter wheat in Wisconsin continues to move through growth stages …
Be on the Lookout for Slug Activity
Bryan Jensen, Department of Entomology, Division of Extension The cool, wet weather has me thinking ……… of slugs. Although some of our best control practices including tillage, crop rotation, not using insecticide seed treatments and …