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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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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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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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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CROP ALERT – July 12, 2023
Wheat Harvest Has Begun Many growers started wheat harvest around the region on Monday. The western half of our NWNY region has been drier and moistures were running 14.5 -18%. South and east had ...
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CROP ALERT – July 6, 2023
Soybean Aphids Increasing Some pictures have been coming in with soybean leaves puckered on top with some edges turning yellow. Soybean aphid numbers are rapidly multiplying and injuring the top couple of trifoliates. Again, ...
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CROP ALERT – June 28, 2023
Soybean Aphid Alert: Numbers are Growing Quickly I mentioned two weeks ago that I had started to see soybean aphids (SBA) flying from buckthorn into young soybeans. I received some calls from my colleagues ...
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CROP ALERT – June 21, 2023
When is it Too Late to Plant Soybeans? We are getting to the very end of planting season. When should we call it quits on soybeans? Cornell recommends June 20th as the last date ...
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CROP ALERT – June 14, 2023
Black Cutworms Continue to Arrive Cutworm moths continue to fly into our region this week. Traps in Castile and Spencerport caught 50 and 55 moths. The storm on Monday was a million-dollar rain for ...
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CROP ALERT – June 6, 2023
Black Cutworms Continue to Arrive Much of the NWNY region has reached the 300 degree days for the first significant cutworm flight on May 3rd to be large enough to completely cut corn plants. ...
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