by John Pirrung [jap448]
Hello Readers,
This week was thankfully more relaxed than last week, and having the 4th off was a nice little break. We had a very productive team meeting on Wednesday and we’re maintaining good connections with our extension teams to publish our fact sheets with them soon. Our fact sheets were, and to an extent still are, just about ready to send out, pending just a few comment resolutions. However, my supervisor recently experimented with our data tables and tried splitting them up into multiple smaller tables. This makes the data a bit easier to parse and reduces the number of columns to have to scan through. We’re going to attempt to convert the tables on the two fact sheets that are closest to completion into this new format and I hope to have them ready to ship by next week Tuesday. We’re on a bit of a time crunch to get these done before the newsletter deadline, so I plan to work on these first thing Monday and may mess with them during the weekend.
Also, as promised last week, I’m sharing some pictures from when we went to Kreher farms in Clarence. We got a tour of their fields and talked with them about their weed management strategies. They shared that their main problem in corn is Field Bindweed, and that they had to switch from organic to conventional for some fields in order to combat it. They also faced issues with Foxtail in their soybean systems, and are experimenting with stamp-down methods for weed control in a number of fields. Here’s some photos that show their corn fields, the bindweed problem, and the stamp-down.
