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Hessian Fly-free Date: Good for Wheat, Cover Crops and Disease
A good rule of thumb for planting wheat is to wait after the Hessian fly-free date. These dates are predictions on when most Hessian fly adults would no longer be alive and lay eggs in wheat fields. If planted too early, the eggs can hatch and stunt or ...
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Combine Adjustments for 2015 Soybean Harvest
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-29/combine-adjustments-2015-soybean-harvest
Kaylee Port was also a contributor to this article 2015 represents another unique cropping year due to the wet weather conditions during spring planting and persistence through July. The result has been many fields with highly variable soybeans condition ...
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Free Pigweed Herbicide Resistance Screening
OSU weed scientists will again screen populations of any pigweed species this coming winter for their herbicide resistance characteristics, at no charge. This includes populations of redroot pigweed, waterhemp, and Palmer amaranth, among others. Samples ...
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Last Alfalfa Cutting and The Fall Rest Period
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-28/last-alfalfa-cutting-and-fall-rest-period
The next two weeks are the best time to take the last alfalfa cutting of the year while maintaining stand productivity. We recommend the last harvest to be taken by September 7 in northern Ohio and September 15 in southern Ohio. This will allow a fall res ...
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CCAs...Get Credits at the 2015 Farm Science Review
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-30/ccasget-credits-2015-farm-science-review
The 2015 Farm Science Review is next week on September 22, 23 & 24. Many across Ohio will be attending to learn more about what it means to grow a crop in this eastern cornbelt state. One group is the Certified Crop Advisers (CCAs); again this year th ...
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Weather Outlook for the Last Half of September
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-30/weather-outlook-last-half-september
The second half of September will continue to experience above normal temperatures and close to normal rainfall. Second half of September RISK: Temperatures- Above Normal (+3-5F)- Normal highs are in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Rainfall- Near Normal (0.5 ...
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Late September Weather
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-31/late-september-weather
There has been one change from last week. All indications are the eastern corn and soybean belt will now experience below normal rainfall into mid October. However, the western corn and soybean belt will see normal or wetter than normal conditions. Late S ...
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Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs on the Move into Homes and Buildings
The brown marmorated stink bug continued its presence in Ohio field crops this year. Although the incidence and damage has been less than in previous years, we have found brown marmorated stink bugs in soybean which suggest that the bug is here to stay. ...
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Farm Science Review 2015--Last Minute Reminders
Harvest has started in many areas of Ohio. At the Farm Science Review we have some of the crop off to allow demonstrations to begin. Yields are in the 180 range for corn and 50’s for soybean. Field demonstrations will include soybean and corn harvest, of ...
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Symptoms of Early Maturity in Some Fields in Ohio
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-27/symptoms-early-maturity-some-fields-ohio
Across the state some soybeans have hit the later growth stages and we have a range of tall, beautiful soybeans loaded with pods to short, scraggly, can still see the rows with few pods soybeans and everything in between. Variability rules for the summer ...