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  1. How could the haze of wildfires affect crop growth?

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-21/how-could-haze-wildfires-affect-crop-growth

    come into the state earlier in the season than in past years (like 2021). This condition has potential ... CO 2 into biomass). Reports have shown that reduced light intensity of 15% did not reduce corn yield, ... been 6-16% greater than normal. In general, a higher PTQ means more photons per GDD, and could lead to ...

  2. August’s Stealthiest Insect Pest: Stink Bugs in Soybean

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-25/august%E2%80%99s-stealthiest-insect-pest-stink-bugs-soybean

    They have straw-like mouthparts which they poke through the pod directly into the developing seed.  If ...

  3. Sidedressing Manure into Corn

    https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2023-16/sidedressing-manure-corn

    ammonium nitrogen which the corn crop can immediately utilize. Incorporating manure into growing corn can ... to support the manure hose. Spring tilled fields that were worked deeply are generally too soft to ... field was not deeply tilled in the spring, generally work well. Five years of university research has ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Healthy Teams Professional Development Awards

    https://fcs.osu.edu/intranet/fcs-professionals/fcs/healthy-teams-professional-development-awards

    learned from the activity into your future programming efforts? How will you share what you learn with ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...

  10. 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 ...

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