Average Temperature Departure from Mean July 25-July 31, 2018
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.
Yield potential in corn is influenced at several stages of growth and development
The post-pollination scuttlebutt overheard in coffee shops throughout Indiana during late summer often revolves around the potential for severe stress that might reduce kernel set or kernel size in neighborhood cornfields.
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