As meteorological winter officially ended on Feb 28, we still have a few more official days of winter left.
7 articles tagged "spring".
Indiana has been receiving less precipitation than normal, particularly over the last 30 days (Figure 1).
Last week was marked by cooler temperatures and lots of rain.
Every spring, cooperators throughout the state put forth considerable effort in trapping for the arrival and intensity of black cutworm moths.
Support from the SCN Coalition and National Soybean Board will continue to provide FREE soybean cyst nematode (SCN) soil testing this spring to Indiana growers. If you have trouble fields that you have not had a recent SCN test please consider sending in a soil sample to test for SCN. This program will support one sample per Indiana farm to be submitted to the SCN Diagnostics at the University of Missouri. Please print off a form here https://ag.purdue.edu/btny/ppdl/Documents/PPDL-3-W%20SCN%20Survey-MO.pdf to include with your soil sample. Additional samples will cost $25/each. Pack the samples in a box and cushion the samples with packing material so the bags don’t break open during shipping. Ship to: SCN Diagnostics 1054 East Campus Loop University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211-5315 To soil sampling for SCN The equipment you need for sampling soil for soybean cyst nematode (SCN) is the same equipment you use for taking a[Read More…]
Every spring we receive several calls and e-mails about a certain 3-foot tall weed with yellow flowers. Cressleaf groundsel will once again be in full bloom across the entire state of Indiana in many no-till fields and pastures.
Storm systems from the Southwestern portions of the country have brought more than rain showers. Many of our pheromone trap cooperators captured black cutworm moths over the last week…though numbers are relatively low. Most surprising was the number of armyworm moths captured in East Central Indiana at the Purdue Davis Ag Research Center.