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Growing Degree Days (GDDs)—also known as Heat Units or Growing Degree Units (GDUs)—are a measure of heat accumulation used to help predict plant growth develop...

Many of you use a seed treatment on your beans every year and some of you never use one. That can be chalked up to personal preference as a grower.

So, some of our more southern friends have a jump on the rest of us when it comes to getting their corn in the ground this year.

Determining when to terminate irrigation in soybeans can be difficult. When making this decision, the goal is to make sure that adequate soil moisture is available to ensure the soybean seeds reach maximum size.

We’ve been seeing some disease in corn this season which we originally thought to be Eyespot. However, upon further investigation, the diagnosis is Curvularia Leaf Spot.

As our ears begin to fill out this year in corn, there are a number of issues for which we should watch.

As we move closer to the finish line, let’s not let our corn stress.

As you may know, irrigation during the early vegetative phase provides little or no yield benefit.

Looks like most, if not all, of us should be on alert for corn earworms/bollworms in our fields.

Whether or not you irrigate your corn depends upon several factors.

For some of you, it is very near time to think about fungicide application in your fields.

As unpredictable as farming can be, it’s always a good idea to try to be prepared for what might lie ahead through the coming season.

Once again faced with a wet and cold spring, now that the forecast has improved we’re finding ourselves in the middle of the busiest few weeks in recent memory.

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