Planting is just around the corner. Every decision made, including seed purchase and the ground conditions it’s put in, can affect the yield-monitor number at harvest. When seeds start in cold, wet soils, that can lead to early-season plant stress that can impact the rest of the season. Not …
As the 2023 season starts we are taking a closer look at three important fungal diseases that are found across broad geographic areas and have the potential to impact corn. Knowing about the diseases now will help when scouting and planning management strategies during the growing season.
Harvest in southwestern Wisconsin was close to being completed the week of Nov. 21. The crop season ended with soybeans yields ranging from 10 percent to 20 percent better than 2021, averaging 70 bushels per acre. Corn yields were similar to 2021, ranging anywhere from 180 bushels to 230 bus…
Corn harvest was nearing completion the week of Nov. 7 in southwestern Wisconsin. But grain yields were sporadic.
Harvest started with a bang and then was stopped by a 1-inch rain in our area of western Wisconsin. After returning to the field, as I write this, harvest is about 75 percent finished. We had quite the crew out to harvest my crop – two semi-trucks, two combines, two grain wagons and a small …
The first days of November along Wisconsin’s Lake Superior coast were unseasonably warm and pleasant. By the weekend of the change to Standard Time much-needed rain had come to parts of the coast, along with more-seasonable cool temperatures.
The third week of October was another tremendous week for harvesting, said Dan Smith, southwest regional specialist for the University of Wisconsin.
The last weeks of weather in October were a regular roller coaster of thrills and spills in northern Wisconsin. The thrills included snow in the Lake Superior Snow Belt. About a foot of the white stuff fell overnight Oct. 17 in the vicinity of Hurley, with traces reaching Wisconsin’s Banana …
Soybean harvest has been progressing well in southwestern Wisconsin, with yields averaging better than the historical average. Some farmers are seeing yields of 70 to 80 bushels per acre.
Many northern-Wisconsin pumpkins are becoming frosty after a full moon as Halloween approaches. For many the growing season ended Sept. 28 with a killing frost, but some microclimates on the Bayfield Peninsula had not yet had a killing frost as mid-October neared. Some days in the first half…
This past week brought an end to the soybean harvest for almost everyone in western Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota. I took a roundabout road trip this past week to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and then to Rochester, Minnesota, and then home through Wabasha, Minnesota. I saw only two small fie…
As I write this there isn’t much going on in the fields in this area of western Wisconsin. I saw one late field of hay cut. Most farmers are finished with their corn silage. Those with soybeans are gearing up for that harvest, which should be in full force by the time this goes to print.
We all hate to hear our local weather forecasters start to use the “F” word, but they do it every autumn. Just as we passed the Autumnal Equinox, they put the word into the forecast – frost.
It’s obvious here in western Wisconsin that fall has arrived. Local market growers have their pumpkins and winter squash out, making for colorful roadside displays.
September’s full moon had come and gone by the time the month was half-spent. Fall Equinox was before us. Summer was dry but humid on Wisconsin’s Lake Superior shore as the drought continued for a third year. Hardy swimmers along Lake Superior reported colder lake water than in recent years.…
Wisconsin had 5.5 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sept. 4, 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Harvesting for corn silage was just beginning and some producers started planting winter wheat.
Corn and soybean crops overall are looking good in southwestern Wisconsin. But Tim Appell of Appell Grain near Shullsburg, Wisconsin, has seen a few signs of hail damage in fields in the Darlington-Gratiot area of Wisconsin. Quarter-size hail was reported Aug. 19 affecting areas near Shullsb…
After 2.8 inches of rain two weeks ago the crops are looking extra nice in our area. It was dry here for a while; we are currently considered “abnormally dry” by the National Weather Service along with parts of Clark, Jackson and Trempealeau counties of Wisconsin It was a welcome relief to h…
If time really does ebb and flow we must be in a very fast flow judging by the speed with which summer passed. Many wished to put on the brakes as we slid through Labor Day, then headlong toward autumn. The fleeting time of great abundance at farm markets, farm stores and roadside stands las…
Southwestern Wisconsin has received timely rainfall through corn-pollination time. But corn-rootworm adults are becoming more common in many corn fields. Growers should be scouting to determine damage potential for next year’s crop in continuous-corn rotations, says Dan Smith, southwest-regi…
Wisconsin had 5.8 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Aug. 7, 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Much-needed rain fell across most of the state, helping to reduce dry-condition stress in corn and soybeans.
Just after the new moon those of us who still have calendars on the wall flipped the pages from July to August. The past few weeks have had a lot of weather that’s great for haymaking. Warm dry breezes cure hay beautifully. But that same weather that’s good for haymaking, when enjoyed in exc…
It’s green all around the place, with beautiful fields of corn, beans and hay – and a background of trees on our hills. The pastures are past their prime but still yielding good feed for the animals.
Wisconsin had 5.0 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending July 17, 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Welcome rains fell across much of the state this past week, providing relief for stressed crops. Harvesting of winter w…
Josh Kamps is a University of Wisconsin-Division of Extension regional crops and soils educator. He works with farmers in Grant, Green, Iowa and Lafayette counties in southwestern Wisconsin. The area’s corn crop is coming along well, he said.
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