Amanda Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Potato & Vegetable Pathology, Plant Pathology Department Update 22 – September 8, 2019 Summary of vegetable disease this summer Cucurbit downy mildew reports Late blight reports PDay and …
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Neonicotinoid Soybean Seed Treatments Provide Negligible Benefits to US Farmers
Shawn P. Conley, Soybean and Wheat Extension Specialist, Department of Agronomy In summary: Across the entire region, the maximum average observed yield benefits due to fungicide (FST = fungicide seed treatment) + neonicotinoid use (FST+NST) …
Wisconsin Crop Manager, September 5, 2019
The 19th issue of the 2019 Wisconsin Crop Manager. All the WCM blog articles from the past week are compiled into one PDF. [wpfilebase tag=file path=’wcm-pdf/WCM2019/WCM2019_19A.pdf’ /]
Wisconsin Fruit News Vol. 4, Issue 11
Christelle Guedot, Fruit Crop Entomology and Extension Specialist, Wisconsin-Madison Fruit Program This week in WI Fruit News Brian Smith of UW-River Falls reports on his research on strawberry hybrids, stone fruit hybrids, and cold-hardy grapes. …
Weather Update 2019
Dr. Joe Lauer, UW-Madison Agronomy and Extension State Corn Specialist View the latest weather summary for 2019 and the Normal (30 previous years – 1989 to 2018) at Arlington and Marshfield from April 1 to …
Vegetable Crop Update #21
Amanda Gevens, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist, Potato & Vegetable Pathology, Plant Pathology Department Update 21 – September 2, 2019 Potato production updates (N trials and remote sensing) Cucurbit downy mildew updates Potato/tomato late blight …
Yield and Quality of July Planted Corn
Dr. Joe Lauer, UW-Madison Agronomy and Extension State Corn Specialist The Kernels Corn has two peaks in forage quality: one at pollination and one at 50% kernel milkline. Bareness generally reduces yield and grain content …
Should I Be Applying Fungicide to My Fall Forage Oat Crop?
Damon Smith, Extension Field Crops Pathologist, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Shawn Conley, Extension Soybean and Small Grains Agronomist, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison Record prevent-plant acres and lack of on-farm forage has …
Wisconsin Crop Manager, August 29, 2019
All the WCM blog articles from the past week are compiled into one PDF. CONTENTS 2019 PEST MANAGEMENT UPDATE MEETING SERIES ANNOUNCED A “POST-MORTEM” OF THE 2019 CORN PLANTING SEASON AND WHAT WE CAN DO …
2019 Pest Management Update Meeting Series Announced for November
The schedule for the 2019 Wisconsin Pest Management Update meeting series has been set. Presentations will include agronomic pest management information for Wisconsin field and forage crops. Speakers include Mark Renz and Rodrigo Werle, weed …