Even with some recent rainfalls across the state, many areas across Indiana are still experiencing a drier than normal planting season (Figure 1).
Even with some recent rainfalls across the state, many areas across Indiana are still experiencing a drier than normal planting season (Figure 1).
Several caterpillars in the ear can be very similar in appearance and habits, so identification to species of some of the worms in ears can be tricky. Note that, in general, you cannot use overall body color or damage for identification.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean July 25-July 31, 2018
Total Precipitation July 26-Aug. 1, 2018
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Darcy Telenko to our field crops team at Purdue University. Dr. Telenko will have extension and research responsibilities in field crops pathology, and her departmental home will be the department of Botany and Plant Pathology.
Corn diseases have been on my radar these past few weeks as I am just getting my boots on the ground in Indiana. Many aerial fungicide applications are going out around the region, corresponding to crop maturity and the uptick of grey leaf spot.
In mid-June, we wrote in the Pest&Crop about the second surge of armyworm moths and suggested that dense, lush grasses (e.g., pasture) could be at risk.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean, July 17-23, 2018
Total Precipitation July 19-25, 2018
Hot dry summers sometimes result in quick irrigation investment decisions that may be regretted.
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