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  1. Options for Short Season Summer Fall Forages

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-23/options-short-season-summer-fall-forages

    silage These cereal forages can be planted for silage beginning the last week of July and into early ... a ton of dry matter per acre in the fall if planted in August, and less yield if planted into September ... additional cuttings next year, starting in late April or early May and then every 25-30 days into June or ...

  2. Battle for the Belt: Episode 21

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-25/battle-belt-episode-21

    scratch the area where tar spot is suspected. Tar spot is embedded into the leaf epidermis and cannot be ...

  3. Battle for the Belt: Episode 20

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-24/battle-belt-episode-20

    sensor, collecting temperature and relative humidity in the canopy. The sensors plug into a solar-powered ...

  4. On Our Watchlist: Seedcorn Maggot and Alfalfa Weevil

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-12/our-watchlist-seedcorn-maggot-and-alfalfa-weevil

    to planting.  The nice rotty smell attracts the adult flies to lay eggs in the soil, which hatch into ... typically provide good protection against the maggots.  However, if these crops were planted early into cold ... incorporated into the new growth.  But if the seed sits in the soil too long before germinating, much of the ...

  5. Lep Monitoring Network Update #10 – Trap Counts for CEW, WBC, and ECB (IA & NY)

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-22/lep-monitoring-network-update-10-%E2%80%93-trap-counts-cew-wbc-and-ecb-ia

    variants. The European Corn Borer (ECB) is a common corn pest of Ohio that bores into corn stalks; these ... mid-whorl stage corn. These eggs hatch and first feed on foliage, before later tunneling into the mid-ribs ...

  6. Wet Weather, Potential Wheat Harvest Delays, and Grain Quality

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-21/wet-weather-potential-wheat-harvest-delays-and-grain-quality

    wheat. In general, the growth of blackish saprophytic molds on the surface of the grain usually does not ... While vomitoxin contamination is generally higher in fields with high levels of wheat scab, it is not ...

  7. Lep Monitoring Network Update #11 – Time to Scout for WBC!

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-23/lep-monitoring-network-update-11-%E2%80%93-time-scout-wbc

    they develop into an orangish-brown color but will have two distinct dark lines running down their ...

  8. Weed Management in Dry Conditions

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-17/weed-management-dry-conditions

    and the fact that herbicides generally work across a range of conditions, it might be best to go ahead ... Rain will still be needed to incorporate later-applied residual herbicides into the soil profile. POST ...

  9. And Now….There’s No Rain – Reminders About Residual Herbicides

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-15/and-now%E2%80%A6there%E2%80%99s-no-rain-%E2%80%93-reminders-about-residual-herbicides

    emerge before herbicide can be moved down into the soil, reducing the degree of control that residual ... needed for “activation”, or movement into the soil to reach germinating seeds.  Most growers are applying ... weeds, and a generally higher weed population earlier in the season than is desirable.  This may lead to ...

  10. Smoke from Wildfires Affecting Ohio Agriculture? Or Some Other Stressors?

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-22/smoke-wildfires-affecting-ohio-agriculture-or-some-other

    compounds which do not turn into a gas during the fire, such as calcium, sodium, and magnesium. As ... bacteria (Bradyrhizobium japonicum). These bacteria convert nitrogen into a form that is usable by the ...

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