These insects can injure the root system and growing points and cause the inside of the whorl to die or the complete plants. Pests cropping up in crops. These insects will move the first emerging soybeans and leaf feed. Also, cutworms prefer fields with green vegetation to lay eggs and also prefer low lying areas in the field. Now is the time to watch fields for critters that may reduce stands. Above ground pests include cutworms, flea beetles and cereal leaf beetles. We have occasional...

As growers prepare their soybean crop, they are encouraged to follow several steps to ensure a season of performance successes: Choose varieties that are resistant to diseases. Plant corn in fields with high soybean cyst nematode populations. Taking fields with severe SCN out of soybean rotation will help reduce pest populations. Use seed treatments to combat diseases, especially in poorly drained fields. If you plant too deep, diseases may wipe out the plants before they even have a...

To grow that much corn producers have made the decision to take acres away from other crops and to plant corn a second year on certain acres. This yield drag cannot be overcome with more nitrogen, it is something about the second year of a crop. The market is demanding more corn and producers are responding. This is simply because the corn residue it tying up the nitrogen more than soybean residue does. Wiebold said research studies show a 9 to 10 percent yield loss in corn following corn...

He offered some encouragement to growers saying there is a possibility that freeze damaged wheat will produce grain from secondary and basil tillers, although it will look ragged. Many questions about the extent of freeze damage to the Kansas crop will be answered by the Wheat Quality Council hard winter wheat tour scheduled for next week. He was widely quoted in the media as saying that freezing temperatures caused significant damage to the stems and heads of primary tillers across the...

Traders say it was more of the same, burdensome stocks and potential increase in planted US soybean acreage this year if producers cannot plant corn. The negative old crop sales are due to China rolling old crop sales to new crop sales. A sharp rally overnight in soybean oil has the market called higher. Surging worldwide vegoil demand continues with heavy fund trade in Canola, Palm and soybean oil. In no event should the content of this website be construed as an express of an implied...

Department of Agriculture released its 2007 planting intention reports which indicated American farmers expected to plant 15 percent more acres of corn this year the largest area planted to corn since 1944. The price report for crops comes on the heels of a report Wednesday indicating the average price farmers were getting for milk last month increased to $17. A pair of farm reports released Thursday indicated corn prices in Wisconsin dropped last month while farmers paid about 8 percent...