No Matter the Type of Silo – Risk for Silo Gas and Silo Filler’s Disease Cheryl Skjolass, Agricultural Safety Specialist, UW-Madison/Cooperative Extension Center for Agricultural Safety and Health The question was asked during a safety …
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Calibrating your Forage Harvester’s Yield Monitor
Calibrating your Forage Harvester’s Yield Monitor Matthew Digman, Research Agricultural Engineer, Dairy Forage Research Center (USDA-ARS) and Kevin Shinners, Professor of Agricultural Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Madison Combines have been monitoring yield since the …
Corn N fertilizer rate and N fertilizer price comparison iPhone apps now available in iTunes
Corn N fertilizer rate and N fertilizer price comparison iPhone apps now available in iTunes Carrie Laboski, Extension Soil Scientist, Roger Schmidt and Scott Sturgul, Nutrient and Pest Management (NPM) Program Have you ever needed …
Corn Earworm Alert for Processing Sweet Corn
Corn Earworm Alert for Processing Sweet Corn Eileen Cullen, Extension Entomologist The Wisconsin DATCP Wisconsin Pest Bulletin’s Corn Earworm pheromone trap network has registered a significnat and accelerating August corn earworm (CEW) migration flight. As reported …
2011 Wisconsin Winter Wheat Performance Test Results Official Publication Now Available
2011 Wisconsin Winter Wheat Performance Test Results Official Publication Now Available Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist Wisconsin saw a 37% increase in winter wheat acres harvested (315,000) in the 2010 -2011 growing season …
Top 7 Recommendations for Winter Wheat Establishment in 2011
Top 7 Recommendations for Winter Wheat Establishment in 2011 Shawn Conley, State Soybean and Small Grains Specialist, Paul Esker, Extension Field Crops Plant Pathologist, John Gaska, Outreach Specialist Top 7 Winter wheat establishment recommendations: Variety …
The Official Draft of the 2011 WI Winter Wheat Performance Test
The Official Draft of the 2011 WI Winter Wheat Performance Test Shawn Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist As we await the professionally formatted 2011 WI Winter Wheat Performance Test Results please go to www.coolbean.info …
Study Confirms Resistance of Western Corn Rootworm Field Populations Bt CRW Corn in Northeastern Iowa
Study Confirms Resistance of Western Corn Rootworm Field Populations Bt CRW Corn in Northeastern Iowa Eileen Cullen, Extension Entomologist An Iowa State University entomologist research group led by Aaron J. Gassmann reported development of resistance …
Western Bean Cutworm Emergence Just Peaking in North-Central and Northeastern Counties
Western Bean Cutworm Emergence Just Peaking in North-Central and Northeastern Counties Eileen Cullen, Extension Entomologist The WI DATCP Wisconsin Pest Bulletin reported August 4th the phenology model for Western Bean Cutworm moth emergence suggests that 75% …
Twospotted Spider Mite Potential on Soybean in Dry Areas
Twospotted Spider Mite Potential on Soybean in Dry Areas Eileen Cullen, Extension Entomologist On July 22 Phil Pellitteri, UW-Madison Insect Diagnostic Clinic, received a report (confirmed with a plant sample) of twospotted spider mite on …