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2011

April 14, 2011 - Weather and Corn Planting; Nitrogen Application Rates; Evaluating Forage Stand Survival; Seeding Small Grains, Forages, and Waterways; Thistles in Pasture, Herbicide Resistance, Glyphosate: Diseases and Micronutrients; Alfalfa Weevils; Stalk Borers; Corn Flea Beetles; Bean Leaf Beetles; Calendar Items
May 17, 2011 - Corn: Black Cutworms, Armyworms; Soybeans: Populations, Seed Treatments, Seedling Diseases Wanted; Alfalfa Weevil; Calendar Items
June 8, 2011 - Hail, Strpied Corn Laves, Stalk Borers, Corn Rootworms, Calendar Items
Hail Damage to Corn
Hail damage to Soybean
July 12, 2011 - Storm Damage; Corn: Foliar Diseases, Nematodes, Western Bean Cutworms, Bur Cucumber; Soybeans: Brown Spot, Bacterial Blight, Japanese Beetles, Soybean Aphids; Calendar Items
November 21, 2011 - Calendar Items
2010
May 3, 2010 - Corn Stand Evaluation, Stalk Borers, Soybean Population, Alaalfa Weevil, Alfalfa Leaf and Stem Diseases, Calendar Items
May 20, 2010 - Corn and Soybeans: Flooding, Seedling Diseases; Corn: Black Cutworms, Stalk Borers, Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test; Soybean: Populations, Seed Treatments; Calendar Items
May 29, 2010 - Corn: Re-planting Decisions, Armyworms, Black Cutworms, Stalk Borers; Alfalfa: Potato Leafhoppers, Leaf Diseases; Calendar Items
June 28, 2010 - Hail on Corn and Soybean; Corn: Lodging, Green Snap, Nitrogen Deficiency, Potassium Deficiency, Fungicide Applications, Herbicide Applications; Soybean: White Mold Prevention, Fungicide Applications, Insecticide Applications; Alfalfa: Potato Leafhoppers, Leaf Diseases; Calendar Items
July 13, 2010 - Japanese Beetles on Corn and Soybean, Green Cloverworms and Celery Laeftiers on Soybean, Soybean Aphid, Calendar Items
Late Summer (Fall) Seeding of Forages
Late Summer (Fall) Forage Management
August 3, 2010 - Moths, Corn Insects and Diseases, Soybean Insects and Diseases, Late Summer Seeding of Forages, Fall Forage Management, Flooded Crops, Calendar Items
August 9, 2010 - Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome, Soybean White Mold, Soybean Aphids, Calendar Items
August 11, 2010 - Corn Tipping Back and Early Denting, Calendar Items
August 23, 2010 - Corn Tops Dying, Corn Ear Rots, Calendar Items
October 11, 2010 - Green Soybeans, ISU Yield Trials, Calendar Items
October 28, 2010 - Weather: Soil Temperatures, Killing Frost and Forages; ISU Variety Trials; Calendar Items
2009
April 21, 2009 - Yields of Late-planted Small Grains, Seeding Waterways, Check Forages for Winter-kill, Planting Corn, Corn and Anhydrous Ammonia, Selecting Nitrogen Rates, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borers, Iowa Bee Rule Changes, Calendar Items
May 20, 2009 - Corn Stand Evaluations, Black Cutworms, Soybean Seeding Rates, Soybean Seed Treatments, Oganic Agriculture Incentives, Calendar Items
May 28, 2009 - Black Cutworms, Stalk Borers, Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test, Calendar Items
June 8, 2009 - Black Cutworms, Armyworms, Stink Bugs, Liquid Nitrogen and Post Corn Herbicides, Weeds, Calendar Items
June 30, 2009 - Ponds and Flooded Fields, Hail, Post Corn Herbicides on Hail Damaged Corn, Corn Brittle Snap, Corn Potassium Deficiency Symptoms, Cupped Soybean Leaves, Potato Leafhoppers, Lepto Leafspot on Alfalfa, Calendar Items
July 20, 2009 - Potato Leafhoppers, Leaf Diseases on Alfalfa, Rotation Resistant Western Corn Rootworms, Fungicides on Corn and Soybean, Japanese Beetles, Calendar Items
August 13, 2009 - Soybean White Mold, Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome, Soybean Aphid, Calendar Items
October 12, 2009 - Freezing and Forages, Corn Ear Rots, Corn Stalk Rots, Corn Drying and Storage, Calendar Items
October 12, 2009 - Freezing and Forages, Corn Ear Rots, Corn Stalk Rots, Corn Drying and Storage, Calendar Items
November 9, 2009 - Corn Ear Rots and mycotoxins, Wet Soybeans, Calendar Items
2008
May 7, 2008 - Oats Planting Delays, Checking Forages for Winter Kill, Seeding Forages, Mudding in Corn, Planting Corn following Anhydrous Ammonia, Burndown Herbicides, Integrated Crop Management Newsletter now Integrated Crop Management News, Calendar Items
May 19, 2008 - Corn: Hybrid Maturities, Stands, Black Cutworms; Weeds, Weeds and Stalk Borers, Calendar Items
May 21, 2008 - Rotary Hoeing
May 27, 2008 - Ponds and Flooded Fields, Corn: Fields to be Planted or re-planted, Black Cutworm; Calendar Items
June 13, 2008 - Weather Woes: In General, Corn, Soybean, Prevented Planting, Nitrogen Losses: Pests: Seedling Diseases, Black Cutworms, Asian Soybean Rust; Calendar Items
June 14, 2008 - Emergency Crop Meetings
June 16, 2008 - Assessing Hail Injury and Options, Post-emergence Corn herbicides on Hail Damaged Corn
June 17, 2008 - Radio Program on Flooding and Crops
July 10, 2008 - Hay: Potato leafhoppers, Leaf Diseases; Corn: Corn Borers, Rotation Resistant Western Corn Rootworms, Fungicides; Soybean: Cupped Leaves, Rhizoctonia Root Rot, Fungicides
July 17, 2008 - Japanese Beetles, Foliar Fertilization, Soybean Aphid
August 21, 2008 - Soybean Aphid, Japanese Beetles, Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome, Calendar Items
2007
February 6, 2007 - Calendar Items
March 13, 2007 - Asian Soybean Rust in Iowa, Calendar Items
April 2, 2007 - Corn-on-Corn, Planting Oats, Seeding Forages, Alfalfa Stand Evaluation, Alfalfa Autoxicity, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borers, Corn Flea Beetles, Bean Leaf Beetles, Calendar Items
April 9, 2007 - Cold Weather and Alfalfa, Alfalfa Weevil, and Black Cutworms, Calendar Items
April 18, 2007 - Alfalfa Recovering, Anhydrous Ammonia
May 7, 2007 - Alfalfa Weevil Corn planting, Black Cutworms, Corn flea Beetles, Bean Leaf Beetles
May 21, 2007 - Mowing Hay, Nitrogen Losses, Late Spring Soil Nitrate Test, Calendar Items
June 18, 2007 - Corn: Potassium deficiency Symptoms, Nitrogen Deficiency Symptoms, Striped Leaves, Anhydrous Ammonia injurym Tied Up and White Flag Leaves; Alfalfa: Potato leafhoppers, Lepto Leafspot, Clover Root Curculio, Calendar Items
July 2, 2007 - Corn Fungicide Spraying, Japanese beetles, Cupped Soybean Leaves, Phytopthora Root Rot on Soybean, Asian Sybean Rust, Soybean Aphids, Calendar Items
July 11, 2007 - Corn Fungicides, Western Bean Cutworm, Extended Diapause of Corn Rootworms, Rotation Resistant Western Corn Rootworms, Bean leaf Beetles, Japanese Beetles, Soybean Aphid, Calendar Items
July 25, 2007 - Storm Damage recovery, Nitrogen Deficiency, Soybean Aphid, Two-spotted Spidermites, Sudden Death Syndrome and Brown Stem rot, Asian Soybean Rust, Calendar Items
August 13, 2007 - Soybean Aphid, Asian Soybean Rust, Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome, White Mold, Calendar Items
August 20, 2007 - Corn Ear Twinning, Calendar Items
October 1, 2007 - Winter Wheat, Fall Stalk Nitrate Test, Corn Fungicides and Yield, Dark Corn Kernels, Variety Trial Data
2006
February 15, 2006 - Soybean Aphid, Soybean Cyst nematode Variety trials, Asian Soybean Rust, Soybean White Mold, Stored Grain Management, Calendar Items
April 12, 2006 - Soil Temperatures, Soil Moisture, Planting Oats, Forage Seeding, Hay Stand Evaluations, Alfalfa Autoxicity, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borers, Corn Flea Beetles, Bean Leaf Beetles, Calendar Items
May 8, 2006 - Alfalfa weevils, Black Cutworms, Corn Flea Beetles, Bean Leaf Beetles
May 23, 2006 - Corn Re-plant Decisions, Black Cutworm, Stalk Borers, Crusted Soybean Fields, Slow Soybean Emergence, Soybean Re-plant Decisions, Bean Leaf Beetles
June 12, 2006 - Nitrogen and Potassium Deficiencies in Corn, Anhydrous Ammonia Injury, Stalk Borers, Potato leafhoppers, Calendar Items
July 31, 2006 - Rotation Resistant Rootworms, Soybean Insecticides, Spidermites, Japanese Beetles, Bean Leaf Beetles, Soybean Aphids, White Mold, Other Soybean Diseases, Potato Leafhoppers, Cowpea Aphids, Late Summer Seedings, Calendar Items
August 8, 2006 - Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome and Look-alikes
October 11, 2006 - Frost on Forages, Calendar Items
2005
April 12, 2005 - Soil Temperatures, Planting Oats, Forage Seeding, Forage Stand Evaluation, Alfalfa Autoxicity, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borer Hatch, Asian Soybean Rust, Hand Lenses, Fungicides, Calendar Items
April 12, 2005 - Soil Temperatures, Planting Oats, Forage Seeding, Forage Stand Evaluation, Alfalfa Autoxicity, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borer Hatch, Asian Soybean Rust, hand Lenses, Fungicides, Calendar Items
May 3, 2005 - Cold Weather and Corn, Soybean, Oats, Winter Wheat, Forages, and Weed Management, Asian Soybean Rust
May 9, 2005 - Corn Frost Recovery, Re-plant Decisions
May 16, 2005 - Black Cutworms, Alfalfa Weevil
June 16, 2005 - Potassium Deficiency in Corn, Soybean Aphids, Asian Soybean Rust, Two-spotted Spidermites, Potato Leafhoppers, Calendar Items
July 13, 2005 - Potato Leafhopper, Corn Silk Clipping, Soybean Potassium Deficiency, Two-spotted Spidermites, Soybean Aphid, Bean Leaf Beetle, Soybean Cyst Nematode, Asian Sybean Rust
July 20, 2005 - Drought in Corn, Soybean, and Forages
August 5, 2005 - Drought, Estimating Corn Yields, Two-spotted Spidermites, Soybean Aphids, Asian Soybean Rust, Other Soybean Foliar Diseases, Soybean Cyst Nematode, Potato Leafhopper, Late Summer (Fall) Seeding of Forages, Calendar Items
August 15, 2005 - Aflatoxin and Other Ear Molds, Calendar Items
September 23, 2005 - Aflatoxin and Other Ear Molds
October 5, 2005 - Dealing with Aflatoxin
November 19, 2005 - Variety Trials, Calendar Items
2004
April 22, 2004 - Oat Seeding, Forage Seeding, Alfalfa Weevil, Stalk Borers
May 12, 2004 - Black Cutworm
May 18, 2004 - Hail Damage
May 24, 2004 - Corn replant Decisions, Nitrogen, Stalk Borers
June 7, 2004 - Distorted Soybean Leaves, Soybean Planting, Flooded Fields, Hay Re-growth, Corn Weed Control, Purple and/or Yellow Corn, Calendar Items
June 9, 2004 - Soybean Aphids
July 26, 2004 - Gray Leafspot, Corn Rootworms, Soybean White Mold, Soybean Aphis, Bean Leaf Beetles
August 18, 2004 - Late Summer (Fall) Seeding of Forages, Fall Management of Forages, Calendar Items
October 1, 2004 - Frost on Forages
November 11, 2004 - Asian Soybean Rust, Calendar Items

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