2009 CROP HAPPENINGS NEWSLETTERS

April 16  -- Greetings, field work update, Nitrogen/corn planting comments, ICM NEWS, ISU Entomology changes

April 20  -- Field work update, Too soon to plant soybeans?, Soil temperature information, deciding on corn plopulations, planting thoughts

May 5 -- field work update, alfalfa winterkill, soil may have settled, black cutworm update, watch for seedling injury, ISU Extension restructuring

May 18 - field work update, udated replanting table available, balck cutworm update, don't forget wind drift potential, and Northern Iowa ResearchFarm field day

June 16  -- soybean aphid update, cutworms now?, Northern Iowa Research Farm field day, recent ICM NEWS articles, watch for ECB moths

June 22 -- Weather update, soybean aphid update, hail injury last week, corn rootworm, Northern Iowa Research Farm field day

June 29 -- Wearther note, soybean aphid update, corn rootworm, Japanese beetles, soybean weed management, equisetum publication

July 6  -- weather note, white leaves in corn, soybean aphid update, Laudis injury reported, corn rootworms, new corn field guide, Holmes cell phone comment

July 13 - weather note, white leaves in corn, soybean aphid update, corn diseases, any adult rootworms?, bacterial blight in soybeans, newsletters from others

August 3 - weather note, corn eyespot, Which fungicide?, Goss's wilt found, soybean aphid update, bacterial blight in soybeans

August 11 - severe hail received, fungicides on hailed crops, corn eyespot, soybean aphid update, corn aphids being found

August 24  - crop update, sudden death syndrome (SDS), white mold?, aphids in corn, GDD in ICM NEWS, fall field day near Ames

September 1- GDD update, aphid spraying stops, soybean diseases increase, hail areas re-visited, ISU will do ear quality study


J. Holmes/K. Grandgeorge 4/13/2009