Staging Corn Maturity for Harvest
When will your corn be ready? There were early plantings and late planting this year and maturity in the field is following suit. Sixty days is the length of time, on average, that it ...
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Pasture Regrowth Project Helps Farms Keep Pace with Grazing
By Betsy Hicks, CCE Dairy Management Specialist & Troy Bishopp, Upper Susquehanna Coalition/ Madison County SWCD From May to November 2021, several farms participated in a pasture regrowth monitoring project. Troy Bishopp of the ...
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Janice’s Fall Cropping Notes for 2021
The cropping season is wrapping up. Unfortunately, shlogging through mud was too common for silage harvest. By now, corn silage is in storage and final hay harvests are being made. Yields are slightly above ...
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First Cutting Monitoring – May 18th, 2021 SCNY Report
This is the SCNY Team’s third full week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2021. A full report for the six-county region can be found in the following link: Alfalfa Height ...
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First Cutting Monitoring – May 11th, 2021 SCNY Report
This is the SCNY Team’s second full week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2021. A full report for the six-county region can be found in the following link: Alfalfa Height ...
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First Cutting Monitoring – May 4th, 2021 SCNY Report
This is the SCNY Team’s first full week of monitoring alfalfa heights for first cutting quality in 2021. A full report for the six-county region can be found in the following link: Alfalfa Height ...
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Spring Green-up & Harvest Outlook – April 30th, 2021
Location Updates As predicted, locations around the SCNY region gained around 100 GDD (B32) in the last week. The two images below show the cumulative Growing Degree Days (B32) for locations throughout the SCNY ...
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Spring Green-up & Harvest Outlook – Friday, April 23, 2021
This past week gave us a little respite from field work, and bought us some time with the cooler (cold?) weather. The two images below show the cumulative Growing Degree Days (B32) for locations ...
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