2004 Crop Happenings Newsletters

September 27-- soybean harvest underway, no Ag Chemical Dealer Update in Fort Dodge, fall nitrogen, soil samples for manure plans, important dates

September 14-- more storms lodge corn, soybean harvest begins, white mold/seedcorn relationship, SDS, comment about drying corn

August 23 -- white mold, sudden death syndrome, new Extension publications, CCA training anyone?

August 9 -- storms damage crops, soybeans -- insects & diseases, western bean cutworms, How does cool weather affect crops? CCA training anyone?

August 2-- western bean cutworms, white mold in soybeans, sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soybeans, manure application field days

July 26-- western bean cutworms, soybean aphids, bean leaf beetles, sudden death syndrome (SDS) in soybeans, White mold in soybeans?

June 29 -- Nitrogen loss, yellow soybeans, bacterial blight in soybeans, corn eyespot common, glyphosate drift

June 14 -- severe weather in central iowa, soybean aphid, watch for grasshoppers, soybean rust First Detector training, spring field day at Kanawha, western bean cutworms

June 7 -- purple corn, damping off in soybeans, leafhoppers in alfalfa, variegated cutworms in alfalfa, stalk borers, & western bean cutworms

May 26 -- flooded fields/hail injury, flood & hail information, crop survival under water, replanting information for corn, replanting information for soybeans, nitrogen losses

May 17 - scout for cutworms NOW!, Dingy vs. black cutworms, blowing soil causes crop injury, silver leaf in corn, frost injury to soybeans, leafy spurge in central Iowa?

May 11 - crop comment, bean leaf beetle, watch for cutworms, dingy vs. black cutworms, insecticide seed treatment comments wanted, flea beetle in southern Iowa, rotary hoeing

May 4 -- frost injury to corn & alfalfa, corn leafing out underground, soybean seed treatments, conservation tillage tool

April 26 -- planting progress, planter cleanout warning, cutworm moth captures, news soil fertility web page, alfalfa weevil, research farm field day dates

April 16 -- greetings, subsoil moisture, corn planting has started, soil temperatures, cutworms coming?, liquid nitrogen lost?

John Holmes 1/25/2005