CROP ALERT – July 17, 2024
Time to Think about White Mold The rain and warm weather have pumped-up soybean growth. Most of the fields I looked at were full flower (R2) this week. Some canopies have already closed on ...
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Time to Think about White Mold The rain and warm weather have pumped-up soybean growth. Most of the fields I looked at were full flower (R2) this week. Some canopies have already closed on ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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