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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Soybean Aphids are Building I had a report and pictures over the weekend that soybean aphids were found over threshold and had to be sprayed. Some follow up revealed that the soybeans did ...
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Maximum Corn and Soybean Growth Stage for Post-emergence Herbicide Application I have seen some early planted corn at V6 growth stage and soybeans at V4. We are getting close to or have surpassed ...
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Take Another Look at Soybean Aphids Soybean aphids (SBA) were very plentiful across the region and some fields were above threshold. Take another look! The hot, rainy, muggy weather were perfect for a ...
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