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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Spider Mites Continuing to Build We have continued to get calls and pictures of soybean fields that are potentially showing signs of spider mite injury in Livingston, Monroe and Wyoming Counties. The hot ...
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Wheat Harvest has Begun! Wheat harvest has begun throughout the region and yield reports have been positive. With the increase in fertilizer prices this year, the nutrient value of straw is important to ...
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Marestail and Waterhemp Control Options in Xtend and XtendFlex Soybeans With the June 30 cut off date to spray dicamba passed, here are some remaining options from Mike Hunter, Field Crop Specialist, CCE ...
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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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