Periods of severe stress can do all sorts of strange things to crops. One oddity that has been reported by a number of folks this year is often described as “ears outgrowing their husks.”
Periods of severe stress can do all sorts of strange things to crops. One oddity that has been reported by a number of folks this year is often described as “ears outgrowing their husks.”
Green cloverworm is considered an occasional defoliating pest of soybean, typically later in the growing season.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean August 16-22, 2018
Total Precipitation August 16-22, 2018
Southern rust of corn was officially confirmed this week in both Knox and Jackson counties Indiana.
He is studying the dynamics of plant disease and epidemiology of crop diseases and in particular grey leaf spot and northern corn leaf blight in corn. His lab is looking to establish a collection of isolates of these two diseases from across the state for epidemiological work that could be the basis for developing strategies to manage GLS in the future.
Corn earworm moth numbers have been relatively low this season until recently, as numbers have exploded in pheromone traps.
For reasons that are unclear – but likely related to two seasons of increased monitoring and spraying – the western bean cutworm damage is far lower than the past two seasons.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean August 8-14, 201
Total Precipitation August 9-15, 2018
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