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| Variable pressure by rootworms this season |
Researchers are finding varying levels of corn rootworm pressure this year in Illinois. “When rootworm larvae hatch in late May or early June and the soils are saturated, they don’t do very well,” said Michael Gray, professor in the University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
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| Indiana is encouraged to do more to preserve ag land |
How “smart” is your community compared to others? If you live in Indiana, your community probably has much to learn about planning its streets and neighborhoods for the benefit of the public, including making sure agricultural land is not compromised, according to a planning expert.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
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| Improving plant populations can result in higher yields |
Plant populations have been steadily increasing in corn operations over the past 20 years, but some producers may be planting too many seeds.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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| Warm temperatures push completion of pollination |
Since much of the Illinois corn crop was planted in April this year, pollination already has occurred for a majority of the acres.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
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| World food prize winner steps up to worldwide food challenge |
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day. Teach him to fish and you’ve fed him for a lifetime. But teach a man to preserve his fish, and he is not only fed for a lifetime, but he feeds a community and creates jobs for the community to grow.
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Monday, July 26, 2010
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| Legislation to raise interstate weight limits has friends, foes |
A proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives to allow individual states to raise truck weight limits on interstate roads to 97,000 pounds hasn’t been welcomed by everyone in the trucking industry.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
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| Fields are likely too wet to avoid soybean diseases |
The usual suspects are showing up in soybean fields, and growers are urged to maintain a scouting routine to protect yields. “We’re right there knocking on the door as to when we want to start looking at our fungicide,” Cliff Lane, Valent sales representative in western Illinois, said during the company’s plot tour at the University of Illinois’ South Farms.
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Saturday, July 24, 2010
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