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Yield or Disease Resistance Package – Which Should Come First?

January 17, 2011 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: By Anne Dorrance, Extension Specialist, Soybean Diseases, Ohio State University C.O.R.N. Newsletter

This is a review of the key pathogens in the state that are very well managed with resistance – if the soybean variety has it.

Researchers Seek Solution To Goss' Wilt

December 21, 2010 | Posted in Crop Protection

Certain bacterial diseases in corn and dry edible beans have re-emerged in recent years, sending University of Nebraska–Lincoln scientists in search of new solutions.

Minimize Corn Losses While Combining

September 15, 2010 | Posted in Equipment

Source: By Mark Hanna, Iowa State University Extension ag engineer

Leaving corn in the field during harvest always results in a yield penalty, Mark Hanna, Iowa State University ag engineer, says.

Yeast May Protect Cereals From Fungus

May 30, 2009 | Posted in Crop Protection

Technology developed by researchers at The Ohio State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) that will help manage the spread of one of the worst diseases affecting crops such as wheat and barley, has been licensed to Sci Protek, Inc., based in Vista, Calif.

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Less Potassium, More Aphids

June 1, 2007 | Posted in Nutrient Management

Wisconsin growers first questioned the idea of a possible connection between potassium levels and soybean aphid populations in no-tilled bean fields. They wondered why they were often seeing a considerable variation in the aphid populations that were found in different areas within a single field.

Plenty Of Hot Topics To Pick From As St. Louis Becomes Center Of No-Till World

National No-Tillage Conference provides answers to the most pressing challenges facing growers in the coming season and beyond.

By Ron Perszewski posted on March 1, 2006 | Posted in Nutrient Management

The biggest crowd in years, more than 700 people, attended the 14th annual National No-Tillage Conference in St. Louis and went home with plenty to think about and put to use on their farms.

Diseases Travel Over "Green Bridge" To Quietly Steal No-Till Yields

Pathogens feed on dying plants then live long enough to prey on newly planted crops1

By Ron Perszewski posted on November 1, 2004 | Posted in Crop Protection

The so-called “green bridge” could be stealing yields from no-till fields without the growers’ knowledge. The green bridge is the method by which soil and foliar pathogens feed on cover crops, weeds or volunteer crops and survive long enough to infect a new season’s cash crops.

Stacking The No-Till Rotation Deck

Rotating crops can benefit your operation, but going against instinct can pay off in a big way. How? Stack ’em.

September 1, 2004 | Posted in Seeding & Planting

Dwayne Beck is known for a lot of things, perhaps crop rotations most of all. This Pierre, S.D., no-tiller manages the Dakota Lakes Research Farm at Pierre, S.D., and dedicates a lot of his time to studying the improvement of no-till operations with the help of crop rotations.

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