2005 Crop Happenings

August 22 -- Aphids...Useful web pages...Fast Track system working...Bacterial pustule found...SDS common...Nitrogen Plot Field days...Research Farm Field Day.

July 28 -- Lodged corn...Check corn roots for rootworm injury...Soybean aphids...Western bean cutworm update...Soybean Rust update.

July 11 -- Greetings...Soybean disease survey continues...Soybean aphids...Tank mix insecticides, fungicides and herbicides...Western bean cutworm moths are flying.

June 21 -- General crop conditions...Soybean diseases...Watch for soybean aphids...Thistle caterpillars...Recover from herbicide injury.

June 15 -- General crop conditions...RSLE-2 and P-Index workshops...ISU Research Farm field day...Soybean aphid?...Soybean rust fungicide manual available.

June 7 -- Soybean replant options...Corn improves...Wear PPE...Soybean rust meetings in mid-June...RSLE-2 and P-Index workshops...ISU Research Farm field day...Soybean disease survey started.

May 25-- Purple corn...Soil erosion...Leafy spurge in central Iowa?...Black cutwork update...Soybean rust meetings in mid-June...CCA training anyone?

May 17 -- Initial soybean rust first detector training...Soybean rust first detectors...First detector update training...Black cutworm update...Frost update...Soybean rust thought.

May 4 -- Cold weather...Soybean planting...Alfalfa frost injury...True white grubs wanted (and found).

April 26 -- Corn planting...Nitrogen losses...First detector exercise...Insecticide treated seed corn...Black cutworm update...True white grubs wanted.

April 18 -- Corn planting has started...Liquid nitrogen lost?...Protective equipment reminder...Insecticide treated seedcorn...Newsletters from other Field Specialists.  

April 12 -- Greetings for a new season...Subsoil moisture levels... Soil temperatures...Soybean rust information.

John Holmes 4/18/2005