Drought Management Information for Corn Growers Joe Lauer has posted several new articles to his blog containing drought management information. You can find links to each of the articles below. We have reprinted one of …
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Getting the Most from Drought Stressed Forages
Getting the Most from Drought Stressed Forages Dan Undersander, Forage Agronomist Good management of moisture stressed forages will increase maintenance of a good stand and reduce the loss of forage production. Management of alfalfa, grass …
Preliminary Wheat Yield Results – Janesville, WI
Preliminary Wheat Yield Results – Janesville, WI Shawn Conley Preliminary winter wheat yields at our Janesville, WI variety trial site have been averaging 85 bu per acre. Test weights have all been above 60 pounds …
Economics of Managing Nitrogen for Sweet Corn
Economics of Managing Nitrogen for Sweet Corn Matt Ruark (Dept. of Soil Science), Paul Mitchell (Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics) Nitrogen (N) management for processing sweet corn in Wisconsin has proven to be a …
Managing irrigation is key when high air temps expected
by A.J. Bussan, UW Extension Vegetable Specialist, UW-Madison Horticulture Later this week the weather is to turn incredibly hot. For many parts of the state from the Illinois border all the way to Hwy 29 …
Early Season Water Deficit Stress on Southern WI Soybeans
Early Season Water Deficit Stress on Southern WI Soybeans Shawn Conley I went to bed last night hoping this article would not have to be written, but that whopping 0.05 hundredths (or less) of rain …
Can plant tissue testing be used to adjust N fertilizer rates for corn?
Can plant tissue testing be used to adjust N fertilizer rates for corn? Carrie Laboski and John Peters, Extension Soil Scientists There has been recent interest among producers and agronomists to use corn plant tissue …
Cereal Leaf Beetle and Desiccated Soybean Seeds
Cereal Leaf Beetle and Desiccated Soybean Seeds Shawn Conley Over the weekend two issues came to my attention: 1. It appears that cereal leaf beetle has hit threshold in a few fields. Dean Volenberg noted …
Double Crop Soybeans in WI May be A Gamble Worth Taking in 2012
Double Crop Soybeans in WI May be A Gamble Worth Taking in 2012 Shawn P Conley, State Soybean and Small Grain Specialist and John Gaska, Extension Outreach Specialist The Wisconsin winter wheat crop remains 3 …
Minimize Dry Matter Loss by Minimizing Silage Porosity
Minimize Dry Matter Loss by Minimizing Silage Porosity Brian Holmes, University of Wisconsin Madison and Richard Muck, USDA, ARS, US Dairy Forage Research Center-Madison A major dry matter (DM) loss mechanism in silage is deterioration …