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Spray Drift: A Serious Problem You Can Manage
Spray drift not only result in wasting expensive pesticides and pollution of the environment, it may damage non-target crops nearby, and poses a serious health risk to people living in areas where drift is occurring. Drift happens! It accounts for about h ...
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Soybean Planting Progress, Emergence, and Misconceptions
Recent wet weather across the state has slowed soybean planting progress, but should be picking up with warmer and dryer weather. As of the last week of April, 2% of the soybean acres in Ohio were planted. Last year at the same time, 17% of soybean acres ...
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Early Season Wheat Diseases and Fungicides
The wheat crop in Ohio is now between early boot (Feekes 10, in the south) and approaching Feekes 8 (flag leaf emergence) in northern counties. Cooler-than-usual conditions over the last few weeks have slowed the crop down considerably, but as temperature ...
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CFAES Ag Weather System 2022 Near-Surface Air and Soil Temperatures/Moisture (Update 6)
Figure 1: Daily average air temperature (dashed red), two-inch (green) and four-inch (blue) soil temperatures for spring 2022. Current daily average soil temperatures are noted for each location. Soil type and location of measurements (under sod or bare s ...
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Forage Quality Targets Based on Animal Class
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2022-13/forage-quality-targets-based-animal-class
The optimal time for making a first cutting of forages is fast approaching. But what is the optimal timing to take the first cutting (or any cutting for that matter)? Many will answer by saying it is when you have time and there is a good weather window t ...
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Soil Crusting Considerations for Corn and Soybean
Warmer temperatures combined with dryer weather will push planting progress along. For fields that have been already planted, recent precipitation and warmer days ahead can build conditions for soil crusting. When heavy rains occur after planting, soil cr ...
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Alfalfa Continues to Mature
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2022-13/alfalfa-continues-mature
Alfalfa stands across Ohio continued to mature in the past week despite our cooler temperatures and significant rainfall totals. Alfalfa fields jumped about 2-3 NDF percentage units in the last week depending on the geographical location. As warmer temper ...
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Corn Planting Progress in Ohio is Slow but Coming Along
Better weather: more planting April was a difficult month for farmers in Ohio; conditions were cold. Some snow and late freeze events were part of the month. This was conducive to limited water evaporation/evapotranspiration, and hence, generally, soils s ...
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2022-13
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2022-13
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Lep Monitoring Network Update – Black Cutworm
Black cutworm We are currently in our second week of monitoring for the black cutworm (BCW, Figure 1). Traps were checked between May 2 – 8 for the presence of BCW adult moths. Over the past week, a total of 28 traps in 9 counties were monitored. Moth num ...