Hard to believe, but fall and cooler temperatures will be here in less than a month.
Hard to believe, but fall and cooler temperatures will be here in less than a month.
After four decades as Purdue University’s Forage Extension Specialist, there is one forage production practice recommendation that draws my ire and has become a major pet peeve; so much that every time the recommendation is offered I think I lose another hair follicle on my head and legs.
For the second week in a row, the much-appreciated cooler temperatures remained from August 17-23. The preliminary state average temperature was 71.2◦F, which was 1.2◦F below the 1991-2020 normal.
Cooler weather has arrived as all of the Indiana climate divisions average temperatures were 1-1.8◦F above normal, compared to the 4-6◦F above normal temperature departures from a week ago.
The Purdue University Crop Diagnostic Training and Research Center is offering a daylong program at the Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center located just west of Bedford on Thursday September 1.
Tar spot continues to be found in Indiana and our first confirmation of southern corn rust happened this week (Figures 1 and 2).
On this episode of the Purdue Crop Chat Podcast, Purdue Extension Soybean Specialist Shaun Casteel and Corn Specialist Dan Quinn welcome Indiana State Climatologist Beth Hall to discuss the weather extremes farmers have faced and might continue to face this season.
Brad Shelton, Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center Superintendent, informed me of high nitrate values in sorghum-sudangrass that were reported on a forage analysis.
July temperatures averaged 1◦F above normal but had a couple of periods of extreme heat.
Since early June, Indiana has been seeing abnormally dry and moderate drought conditions gradually expand and intensify across the state.
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