MN & WI Crop Update
06.18.2012
Crop conditions throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin vary greatly at this time. The quality of the early crop can be traced back to planting date and rainfall totals so far. Spring planting lasted over two months, resulting in several stages of crop growth. Weather conditions during or shortly...
EA Nebraska, SE South Dakota, NE Kansas Crop Update
06.18.2012
The corn crop is moving along quite well. This region over the years has sporadic rainfall and regions within this region tend to show it. Overall the corn crop looks good. Northeast KS, and East Central NE had good rainfall on Friday. The corn is past knee high and is in...
WE Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas Crop Update
06.18.2012
Three words pretty much sum up the current weather in our Region. "Hot" "Dry" Windy" -- day after day. Most of the corn crop is around the V8 to V10 stage and looks excellent under irrigation. The issue now will be whether or not our irrigation will be...
SO Illinois and EA Missouri Crop Update - June 17, 2012
06.18.2012
Writing this update on Father’s Day weekend, I believe most dads would have liked to receive rain as a gift. Corn and soybeans across southern half of Illinois and Missouri are very drought stressed in areas that have missed any passing showers. Corn growth stages vary from V5...
Ohio Crop Update
06.18.2012
Ohio is very dry across the state with the exception of some areas that got rain on Sunday in North central Ohio, southern Ohio, and spots in Western Ohio ranging from .1- 1.5 inches. Corn plants are rolling from heat stress in some fields. The last planted soybeans are rough looking...
Indiana/Kentucky/MidSouth Crop Update
06.17.2012
Dry conditions increased in all geographical regions in recent weeks. Almost 90% of Indiana is in some form of abnormally dry or drought stress as of Saturday. Moderate drought is occurring in north central and northeast Indiana. South central Indiana is abnormally dry. Moderate to severe...
Goss's Bacterial Wilt
06.15.2012
Goss’s Bacterial Wilt has become a very big talking point across the Corn Belt over the last couple of years. It has already been found in several counties this year in Eastern Nebraska, and is sure to show up in many more fields across the entire Corn Belt. The disease has...
Crop Progress Report - June 11, 2012
06.11.2012
Summer is upon us. Heat and lack of rain are influencing crop progress at the current time. Scattered rains of a week ago not withstanding, many areas of the corn belt are starved for moisture. In fact, Purdue University is now reporting that this year is the driest spring since the spring of...
"Floppy" or "Rootless" Corn
06.01.2012
“Floppy” or “Rootless” Corn Syndrome has been diagnosed in corn fields in Northern Illinois. With very strong winds at the end olf May, and the lone support of just the mesocotyl, the corn plant did not have a chance and “flopped” over.
The top layer of...
Side-Dressing Corn
05.27.2012
Wet spring weather, lower yields due to denitrification and volatilization, along with high priced nitrogen fertilizers, has caused many farmers to side-dress nitrogen in 2012. Side-dressing is one of the most economical and environmental ways of applying nitrogen. There are multiple...
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