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Tar Spot: a New Corn Disease in the Midwest
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-32/tar-spot-new-corn-disease-midwest
A few weeks ago, Tar Spot, a new disease of corn caused by the fungus Phyllachora maydis was reported for the first time in the US, first in Indiana and then in Illinois. It was later found as far east as Allen County, IN, bordering Paulding County in n ...
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Application of Manure to Newly Planted Wheat Fields
Several livestock producers have inquired about applying liquid dairy or swine manure to newly planted wheat fields using a drag hose. The thought process is that the fields are firm (dry), there is very little rain in the nearby forecast, and the wheat c ...
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Liming Considerations
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-32/liming-considerations
Fall is an excellent time to test soil pH and determine whether any lime needs to be applied for future crops. Proper soil pH is important for nutrient availability, herbicide activity, and crop development. For most soils, additional lime is not needed e ...
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Fall Herbicide Applications and New Technology
The C.O.R.N. archive has a plethora of previous articles about fall herbicide treatments, including the importance of these for management of marestail. Nothing has really changed that would merit rehashing all of this again – don’t spend a lot of money, ...
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions— Focus on Variety Selection
Each year things seem to be coming earlier, choices need to be made even before we have this current crop in the grain bin, much less have it sold. Here are a couple of suggestions as you prepare for the 2016 crop. 1. Focus variety selection on the ...
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Yield Monitor Tips for 2015 Harvest
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-29/yield-monitor-tips-2015-harvest
Andrew Klopfenstein, Kaylee Port and Scott Shearer also contributed to this article Wet spring and persistent rain in many areas of Ohio have generated highly variable harvesting conditions for 2015 in both soybeans and corn. There are maturity, height, ...
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Burndown Herbicides for No-tillage Wheat
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-29/burndown-herbicides-no-tillage-wheat
This summer’s weather caused problems with weed control in some areas of the state, and this certainly includes our two major weeds, giant ragweed and marestail. As we move through harvest and into the season of wheat planting and fall herbicide applicat ...
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Wheat Management for Fall 2015
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-29/wheat-management-fall-2015
Wheat helps reduce problems associated with the continuous planting of soybean and corn and provides an ideal time to apply fertilizer and manure, condition the field, and plant cover crops after harvest. With soybean harvest beginning, we would like to r ...
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Growing Season Adversely Affected Ear Development
Excessive rainfall (which contributed to N loss and poor root development) followed by late season drought had a major impact on ear and kernel formation in many Ohio corn fields this year. Poor ear and kernel development is associated with variability in ...