CROP ALERT – July 10, 2024

Corn is Beginning to Tassel! I saw corn tasseling in Yates County and even some silking and Ontario County on Monday. Corn looks great across the region with many plants over my head. This ...
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July 10, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsArmyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Corn, Crown Rust, Dicamba, Economics, Eyespot, Japanese Beetle, Lodged Wheat, Oats, Planting Soybeans, Potato Leafhopper, Rootworm, Soybean Aphids, Tassel, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – July 3, 2024

Soybeans are Beginning to Flower I saw my first flowers in soybean fields this week. This is the R1 stage. This is a critical stage of application of the traited post-emergence products. Glyphosate products ...
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July 3, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsArmyworms, Black Cutworm, Common Armyworm, Dicamba, Eyespot, Japanese Beetle, Lodged Wheat, Planting Soybeans, Soybean Aphids, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – June 26, 2024

Black Cutworm and Armyworm Traps Done for the Year We pulled all the pheromone traps yesterday. Wyoming, Yates and Livingston traps continue to catch significant numbers of black cutworm but most of our corn ...
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June 26, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsArmyworms, Black Cutworm, Common Armyworm, Dicamba, Eyespot, Japanese Beetle, Lodged Wheat, Planting Soybeans, Soybean Aphids, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – June 20, 2024

Armyworm Update Still hearing reports of armyworm in wheat and hay (front of the mower) this week. Blackbirds are still very visible diving into fields and letting us know where to look. Scouting wheat ...
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June 20, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsArmyworms, Black Cutworm, Common Armyworm, Eyespot, Lodged Wheat, Planting Soybeans, Soybean Aphids, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – June 12, 2024

  Slugs Damaging Corn & Soybean Seedlings The recent cool wet weather has been perfect for slugs in reduced and no-till fields. The cloudy conditions allow them to be out all day feeding on ...
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June 12, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa Weevil, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Corn, Flag Leaf, Fusarium Head Blight, Fusarium Head Scab, Potato Leafhopper, Slug, Stripe Rust, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – June 5, 2024

Pheromone Trap Updates – Cutworm and Armyworm We continue to get some good flights of black cutworm with four traps with significant flights this past week. I was able to find some cut plants ...
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June 5, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa Weevil, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Corn, Degree-Day Accumulation, Flag Leaf, Fusarium Head Blight, Fusarium Head Scab, Potato Leafhopper, Stripe Rust, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – May 29, 2024

Black Cutworms and Armyworms Continue to Arrive The NWNY region has reached the 300-degree days for the flights that came in on April 24, May 1 and May 7 and will hit that mark ...
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May 29, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa Weevil, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Corn, Degree-Day Accumulation, Flag Leaf, Fusarium Head Blight, Fusarium Head Scab, Potato Leafhopper, Stripe Rust, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – May 22, 2024

Start Scouting for Cutworm Injury in Corn Many counties will hit the 300-degree day mark today, (5/22), and that means the first wave of BCW are big enough to start cutting corn plants. I ...
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May 22, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa, Alfalfa Monitoring, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Common Armyworm, Corn, Degree-Day Accumulation, Flag Leaf, Fusarium Head Blight, Stripe Rust, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – May 15, 2024

Cereal Leaf Beetle Eggs have Hatched Found the first CLB larvae in wheat on Tuesday. Larvae are shiny and black and almost look slug-like. They cover themselves in their own excrement and are pale ...
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May 15, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa, Alfalfa Monitoring, Alfalfa Weevil, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Degree-Day Accumulation, Flag Leaf, Fusarium Head Blight, Herbicides, Malting Barley, Oats, Triticale, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat

CROP ALERT – May 7, 2024

Triticale Harvest has Begun! A lot of early planted triticale acres were chopped this week. Average yields are being reported. I looked at some today in Wayne County and the flag leaf was poking ...
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May 8, 2024Crop Alert, Field CropsAlfalfa, Alfalfa Monitoring, Armyworms, Black Cutworm, Cereal Leaf Beetle, Common Armyworm, Flag Leaf, Herbicides, Malting Barley, Oats, Triticale, Wheat Growth, Winter Wheat