Pest managers should now be scouting their alfalfa for leaf feeding from weevil larvae. This pest is often overlooked during the early spring planting season.
Pest managers should now be scouting their alfalfa for leaf feeding from weevil larvae. This pest is often overlooked during the early spring planting season.
Over the past few weeks armyworm moths have been captured in abundance in some of the traps placed at Purdue Ag Research Centers (see accompanying “Armyworm Pheromone Trap Report”).
Increasingly, slugs are becoming a topic of discussion with field crop producers. Not from the slugs’ disagreeable nature, but because damage to crops is becoming more apparent.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean April 25-May 1, 2018
Total Precipitation April 26-May 2, 2018
There has been increasingly growing interest in utilizing cover crops in our corn and soybean production systems over the last several years.
Crop planting has progressed at an amazing pace over the last week. Many of these acres will also receive soil applied, residual herbicides for control of germinating weed seedlings. Soil applied pre-emergent herbicides require moisture for activation.
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.
Average Temperature Departure from Mean April 17-23, 2018
Total Precipitation April 19-25, 2018
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