Farm Shows
1 year 33 weeks ago
Excellent attendance at the Farm Progress Show in Ames, IA. Harvesting was just starting, storms on Tuesday night, but rest of the week was good weather. Not much harvested in Nebraska last week on my way to Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, NE. Stormed on Tuesday, several displays blew over....
Diplodia Ear Rot
1 year 34 weeks ago
Diplodia ear rot is starting to make an unwelcome appearance again this year. Danny Himes, Luke Anderson and myself made one count of close to 5% damaged ears in the Windsor area of Shelby county IL. last week in a corn following soybean field. It is normally worse in a corn following corn...
Crop Planting Progress - April 24, 2011
1 year 3 weeks ago
Weather around the central Corn Belt during the past week has brought field work and planting of crops to a virtual standstill. All states are reporting that little progress was made in corn planting this week, due to heavy and persistent rainfall. Last year’s almost record...
LG Seeds Donates to Local FFA and 4-H Club
16 weeks 2 days ago
At this year’s Husker Harvest Days in Grand Island, NE, Farm Progress Show in Decatur, IL, and at Ohio Farm Science Review in London, OH, farmers registered for a chance to win $1,000 to be donated to their local FFA or 4-H Club of choice.
Gail Neumeister of Peru, NE was...
Plains West Crop Update
28 weeks 2 days ago
Corn harvest in the Plains West Region is at about 70% completed with some areas in Kansas 100% completed. The fall weather has been nearly perfect and allowed for harvest to move quickly. I would expect to be nearly...
Ohio Crop Update
28 weeks 2 days ago
In Ohio, rain has been off and on the past week. This slowed soybean harvest. Soybean harvest is about 60% complete in the North part of the state, and 75% complete in the South part of the state. Corn Harvest is just getting started with less than 10% harvested.
Over the past...
What Consistency!
1 year 31 weeks ago
LG2620VT3 is in the History Books! NO Hybrid in the 14 year history of the F.I.R.S.T. trials has Placed 1st in the Illinois North trial, 1st in the Illinois West Central trial and 1st in the Illinois East Central trial summaries like LG2620VT3 has this year! LG2620VT3 FIRST in the ILNO 6...
Strategies for Growing Corn-after-Corn
30 weeks 6 days ago
Early yield reports have come in this fall indicate that corn after corn (CAC) may suffer from a “yield drag” similar to what has been witnessed over the past few growing seasons. Although there may be a yield penalty, the economics still need to play into which crop will make more...
Ohio Crop Update 10/1/2011, Ear Mold Info
32 weeks 5 days ago
Over the past week much of Ohio has experienced substantial rainfall. Along the I-75 corridor seems to be the hardest hit, receiving around three inches in spots.
Crop update summary (from USDA report Monday Sept. 26).
As of Sunday, Ohio corn was 84% dented compared to a 96%...
2011 Corn Ear Rots
32 weeks 4 days ago
Questions are coming up again this year about corn ear rots. Drought and heat stress in combination with hail and insect injury has raised the specter of Aspergillus mold growth and the possiblilty of aflatoxin production. Also late planting in many areas has corn finishing or maturing ...
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