PODCAST: Early Season Insect Management
Dairyland Seed Product Agronomy Specialist, Rod Moran, shares early season insect management advice for Illinois soybean growers. Listen to the podcast here: [...]
Growing Wheat? Keep Fusarium Head Blight on Your Radar!
Fusarium head blight (FHB), or head scab is widely considered to be the most problematic disease impacting wheat production in the United States. In [...]
Spring Pre-emergence Herbicide Applications
Is it time to apply my pre-emergence herbicide? The short answer is, “Yes.” It’s after April 16, so as the weather straightens out, we [...]
Full Rate Herbicides Prevent Resistant Marestail
Marestail, one of the first glyphosate-resistant weeds identified in row crops, is still among the top driver-weeds that can significantly impact your soybean crop [...]
Slug Management in Illinois Field Crops
Article originally posted on the Bulletin. Slugs can be a difficult pest to manage when conditions are favorable for them, which has been the [...]
Scouting Soybean for Insect Pests
I began work as a field crop entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in September 2017, after having worked in a [...]
SCN: The Soybean Nemesis
Greetings! It is great to be serving the agronomic community of Illinois as the Extension Field Crops Plant Pathologist. My role at the University [...]
Facts about Nematodes
Nematodes are a fact of life whether you grow corn or soybeans or other crops. Today, in my opinion, nematodes are one agronomic issue [...]
Reconsidering Surfactants
Are you adding additional surfactant to your herbicide package? Glyphosate is a herbicide that comes fully loaded with an adjuvant package. Because we have [...]
Waterhemp By the Numbers
How do you manage a weed that is such a prolific seed producer? I’ve received quite a few phone calls regarding this question lately. [...]
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