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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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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It’s that time of year to begin our Crop Alerts! We will be writing weekly to tell you what we are seeing in the field and what to be watching out for. ...
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Tar Spot Update for N.Y. We have been watching for tar spot in corn fields all summer and it has been hard to find. In the past couple of weeks, it has really come ...
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Free Soybean Cyst Nematode Sampling Do you have an area in your soybean field that consistently matures earlier, is shorter, or always yields less? Do you have a field that has a history of ...
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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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