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Dealing With Henbit, Purple Deadnettle In No-Till Fields

April 26, 2011 | Posted in Crop Protection

Source: By Aaron Hager, University of Illinois Extension

The two winter annual weed species producing the purple patches in no-till fields around the Midwest are henbit and purple deadnettle.

No-Till Leads To Higher Profits, Better Soil Health For Kentucky Grower

April 17, 2011 | Posted in Cover Crops, Crop Protection, Soil Health

Source: NRCS Grower Profile

Daviess County, Kentucky, farmer Myrel Trunnell, and son Kevin, farm approximately 1,200 acres in Utica, Kentucky.

No-Till Notes

Assess Crop Perfomance Frequently This Season

Weekly scouting will help you discover what’s affecting your no-tilled corn and soybean yields and the changes you need to make for 2011.

By Jim Leverich posted on July 1, 2010 | Posted in Equipment, Precision Agriculture

With early season warmth, many no-tillers started planting very early this year. Now is a good time to go back and look at your planting calendar and begin to assess whether this early no-till planting worked for you or if waiting later to no-till may have been better.

Soybean Aphids Building Impressive Numbers

October 9, 2009 | Posted in Crop Protection

In late September, reports of "swarms" of aphids became common across much of central and southern Illinois.

No-Till Notes

Making Early Summer Scouting Pay

If late planting leads to your no-till crops canopying 2 or 3 weeks later than normal, early weed control is critical.

By Jim Leverich posted on July 1, 2008 | Posted in Seeding & Planting, Crop Protection

Now's a great time to head out to your no-till fields and scout for weeds, insects and other pests. Many of you will be putting on your second pass of herbicides and/or applying a second pass where it turned out that the one-pass weed control system wasn’t adequate.

Getting No-Till Soybean Pests Under Control

No-tillers are looking for the latest technology to help push up soybean yields.

By Frank Lessiter posted on April 1, 2007 | Posted in Crop Protection

With an emphasis on growing fewer soybean acres due to this year's move toward more continuous corn, no-tillers are looking for new ways to boost soybean yields. And attendees at last winter's 15th annual National No-Tillage Conference learned that a number of new pesticide developments can definitely help in the control of insects, diseases and weeds.

Focus On No-Till Soybean Diseases!

Tech reps from Syngenta Crop Protection and Bayer CropScience contend that bigger no-till soybean returns can be earned by controlling diseases rather than worrying about insect concerns.

By Frank Lessiter posted on April 1, 2006 | Posted in Crop Protection

While you can rely on a number of new technologies for controlling pests in your no-tilled soybeans, this might be the year to focus more attention on disease concerns.

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