Yield Impacts from Anthracnose in Soybeans
While anthracnose in soybeans often goes unnoticed during the growing season, this disease can subtly undermine seed quality and overall yield during harvest.
Proper Corn Harvest Timing Matters
Proper timing of corn harvest has important implications for harvestable yield, grain drying costs, and profits. Take these key steps in order to nail down harvest timing this season and seasons to come.
How Stalk and Root Deterioration Can Affect Harvest Plans
Corn standability depends on a combination of plant quality, stalk strength, and root strength. Stalk lodging is the breakage of the stalk below the ear. Root lodging results from the root system’s inability to anchor the plant and keep it vertical, which causes...
Set the Stage for Success in 2025 with the Best Yields & Tactics in 2024
Harvest is just around the corner for many. It’s also the time to start setting the stage for success in the 2025 season. It starts by establishing priorities and a plan for going into harvest, managing residue, and understanding how what you do now through the fall will affect next year’s growing season.
Northern Corn Leaf Blight
Northern Corn Leaf Blight (NCLB) is a critical concern for corn growers, as it can severely impact crop health and yield under favorable conditions for the pathogen. The disease, driven by Exserohilum turcicum, thrives in warm, wet environments and can quickly spread if not controlled.
Early Season Soybean Concerns – Part 3
What are the needs of your crop now? Do you know? See what to be on the lookout for in the coming weeks.
Early Season Soybean Concerns – Part 2
Damping off is the rotting and death of seeds and seedlings and the symptoms can show in soybean plants prior to or just after emergence. Pathogens that can cause damping off, such as Pythium, Fusarium, Phytophthora, and Rhizoctonia are generally favored by wet soils following planting and for most of the country we certainly have had just that this year.
Early Season Soybean Concerns
Recent weather has caused an array of pests to emerge on early season soybean plants. Several of them may look familiar as corn pests too.
Springtime Corn Seedling Diseases – Part 3
Managing corn seedling diseases begins with an effective fungicide seed treatment package and includes management practices and planting procedures. This is part 3 of the Springtime Corn Seedling Diseases series to help you fight back against corn diseases.
Flooding Impacts on 2024 Crops
Many areas across the AgVenture network and Midwest have seen an abundance of recent rainfall, presenting a formidable challenge to farmers and their crops. See what steps you can take to produce more bushels in the fall if you find your fields in this situation.