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Estimating Yield Losses in Drought Damaged Corn Fields
Rainfall over the past weekend helped some drought stressed corn fields, especially late plantings, but it may have been too late for others. Prior to this rainfall, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 46 percent of Ohio was rated as in “moderate drou ...
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Potential for Nitrate Problems in Drought Stressed Corn
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/potential-nitrate-problems-drought-stressed-corn
Have very dry soil conditions increased the potential for toxic levels of nitrates in corn harvested for silage? Nitrates absorbed from the soil by plant roots are normally incorporated into plant tissue as amino acids, proteins and other nitrogenous comp ...
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2016-25
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-25
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Protect Water--Keep Nutrients in the Field
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/protect-water-keep-nutrients-field
C.O.R.N. Newsletter readers interested in current research and what they can do to assist with the water quality and nutrient management issues happening in Ohio won’t want to miss ‘Agricultural Conservation, Protecting Water: Keeping Soil and Nutrients i ...
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Soybean Sites Needed for Pollinator Sampling
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-09/soybean-sites-needed-pollinator-sampling
An array of bee and fly pollinator species are found in soybean, and can enhance yield even though soybeans are self-pollinating. I will be conducting a study this summer to identify pollinator insects in Ohio soybean and I’m looking for cooperators with ...
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Spraying Insecticides on Soybeans and Honey Bees
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/spraying-insecticides-soybeans-and-honey-bees
Although soybean aphids remain at low levels in Ohio, we are aware that many growers are adding insecticides to spray tanks when applying fungicides for plant health purposes and even late applications of herbicides because: “Well, I’m going over the fiel ...
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“Tassel Ears” Sightings in Corn
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/%E2%80%9Ctassel-ears%E2%80%9D-sightings-corn
Tassel Ears” (Figure 1) are showing up in corn fields around Ohio. Corn is the only major field crop characterized by separate male and female flowering structures, the tassel and ear, respectively. In most corn fields it is not unusual to find a few scat ...
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2016 Ohio Wheat Performance Test Available Online
A pdf of the 2016 Ohio Wheat Performance Test can be found at the Soybean and Small Grain website at: http://stepupsoy.osu.edu/node/35. A sortable version of the Ohio Wheat Performance Test can be found at: http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/wheattrials/ ...
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Corn and Soybean: What’s in Store for 2016?
This “spring,” the weather has gone from snow and 24 degrees to sunny and 80 degrees within one week. This unusual weather leaves many of us wondering what’s in store for the remainder of the growing season. In general, unfavorable weather conditions tend ...
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Warm Weather Hit in a Big Way This Last Week
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2016-08/warm-weather-hit-big-way-last-week
After a cold start to April the warm weather hit in a big way this last week. Temperatures now for Ohio are running 3-5 degrees below normal for April but will likely be down to a degree or two below normal by late this week for April as the warmth cancel ...