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Late-Season Weed Issues – Are We Having Fun Yet?
According to our weather guru, there is no close precedent for a summer like this in the last 100 years, and I can’t recall a year with this much mid-season rain in my almost 30 years here. This has obviously caused immense problems with post-emergence h ...
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Wet Weather and Late-Season Fungicides
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-22/wet-weather-and-late-season-fungicides
Wet weather is continuing to be a problem throughout the state, and many questions are popping up regarding late-season fungicides. With funding from Ohio Soybean Council, we conducted a “high-input” trial in 2013 (9 locations) and 2014 (7 locations) to ...
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Fungicide Applications Depend on Soybean Growth Stages and Presence of Disease
We have had lots of inquiries this past week on the benefit or lack-there-of from fungicide applications on soybean in Ohio. There are several factors that I have found in the past that can influence this return on investment: growth stage of the plant ...
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Will Persistent Rains Impact Corn Pollination?
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Ohio/Publications/Crop_Progress_&_Condition/index.asp) for the week ending 7-19-15, 43% of the state’s corn was silking compared to 53% for the 5-y ...
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More on Fungicides and Tank-Mixing with Insecticides
Foliar diseases continue to spread up the corn plant in some fields, so, this may be the year to apply a foliar fungicide to minimize losses due to diseases such as Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) and Gray Leaf Spot (GLS). Both GLS and NCLB may cause yie ...
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Planting Scabby Wheat
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-21/planting-scabby-wheat
Although scab was not widespread in Ohio this year, there were a few pockets with high levels of the disease in some parts of the state. In addition, persistent rainfall over the last several weeks has caused producers to be concerned about grain quality ...
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Weather Update
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-22/weather-update
The pattern change we talked about last week is on schedule. The wet pattern is relaxing! The outlook for the rest of July into August calls for near normal temperatures and rainfall with a slight trending toward warmer and drier conditions but only sligh ...
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2015 Farmer Led Water Quality Monitoring in Western Lake Erie Basin
Ohio State University Extension is asking farmers in the Maumee River Basin to help with a water monitoring research project looking at Dissolved Reactive Phosphorus (DRP) losses from fields. Increases in DRP in the watershed have been tied to increased ...
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FSR Agronomy College
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-22/fsr-agronomy-college
The FSR Agronomy College is September 15 th. We will make use of the site and facilities of the Farm Science Review’s Molly Caren Agricultural Center. We will see some things that FSR attendees won’t see. Registration is at 8:30 with the program running f ...