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Soybean fields throughout the state are rapidly undergoing their annual color changes, deep green to golden yellow.
Soybean fields throughout the state are rapidly undergoing their annual color changes, deep green to golden yellow.
The majority of the corn across the state of Indiana has either just entered the dent growth stage (R5) or has already been in the dent stage as it approaches physiological maturity (R6, black layer).
Fall armyworm invasion was predicted in early August by Purdue University entomologists.
While Hurricane Ida and her remnants have wreaked havoc down south and in the mid-Atlantic states, she was relatively kind and generous when it came to Indiana. Some southern counties received between 4 and 5 inches from Ida (Figure 1).
Individuals interested in learning more about the potential challenges and opportunities of growing cannabinoid hemp are invited to a field day at Meigs Farm, part of the Throckmorton Purdue Agricultural Center, 9101 S. 100 E, on September 16th from 1:00-4:30 pm.
The sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari), a relatively new pest of grain sorghum, forage sorghums, sudangrass, sorghum-sudangrass hybrids and Johnson grass, first detected in Indiana in 2016, is making its presence known primarily in southcentral and southwestern counties.
Reports of denuded forage crops, especially alfalfa, from large numbers of fall armyworm have been shared from throughout Kentucky and southern counties of Indiana and Illinois.
Precipitation and storm tracks this year seem to be stagnating in patterns that have caused some parts of Indiana to feel as if they are drowning and other parts to feel like they are in a drought.
This past week was a return to high summer temperature for all and lack of moisture for most in Indiana.
Serious crop stress during the grain filling period of corn increases the risk of stalk rots and stalk lodging (breakage) prior to grain harvest.
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