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Lep Monitoring Network – Black Cutworm and True Armyworm Update # 1
The Ohio Lep Network is back for a fourth year of monitoring Lepidopteran pests in ag crops across Ohio. Similar to last year, we will be monitoring black cutworm (BCW), true armyworm (AMW), corn earworm (CEW), western bean cutworm (WBC) and fall armyworm ...
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2025-11
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-11
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Wheat Yield Contest Entry Deadline May 15th
Attention wheat growers…the National and Ohio Wheat Yield Contest is open for entries until May 15 th! Wheat growers with at least 50 total acres of wheat in production and with a minimum 5-acre contest field may participate. Complete rules can be found a ...
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Battle for the Belt: Season 3, Episode 5: Weather and Planting Update
Season 3, Episode 5 of Battle for the Belt is now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVYGuSdz2Vw&list=PLYlh_BdeqniI74ycivSl_yVOjWJjdjg2X&index=7 When will we be able to plant? That’s the question on many farmers’ minds as we head i ...
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Alfalfa Weevils are Active Statewide
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-11/alfalfa-weevils-are-active-statewide
Alfalfa weevil larval activity is beginning its peak activity across the state. Alfalfa weevil feeding activity is driven by the accumulation of growing degree days (GDD) and reaches their peak feeding and damage when heat units for the area are between 3 ...
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Favorable Planting Weather
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-11/favorable-planting-weather
Climate Summary Precipitation over the last week has been hit or miss. Although systems have moved through at a pace of every 2-3 days, some areas received much more rain than others (Figure 1). Particularly hard hit this week was northeast Ohio, where a ...
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Reminder to Scout for Alfalfa Weevil
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-10/reminder-scout-alfalfa-weevil
Despite the colder start to the year, we are still accumulating growing degree days (GDD). The southern portion of the state is in the prime range, of between 325 and 575 GDDs, for alfalfa weevil feeding and damage. For the northern part of the state, don ...
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2025-10
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-10
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Spring Conditions Starting to Prevail
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-10/spring-conditions-starting-prevail
Climate Summary After the state’s deluge to begin April, precipitation has generally underperformed forecasts over that last couple of weeks. Totals over the last seven days show three primary tracks of heavier rainfall: one across northwest Ohio, one fro ...
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Wheat Management for Spring 2025
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2025-10/wheat-management-spring-2025
Spring is an important time to make key management decisions for winter wheat. Last year, wheat developed and the dried down quickly, causing harvest to be about 7 to 10 days earlier than previous years. This serves as an important reminder that decisio ...