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Ohio Weather Outlook for October
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-34/ohio-weather-outlook-october
We are now in transition season. We expect the rest of October to become more active with rain chances every 2-4 days. We will be in a battle zone between high pressure near the East Coast and low pressure near the central U.S. leaving Ohio and the Ohio ...
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Soybean Aphid Prediction for 2015
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-34/soybean-aphid-prediction-2015
Two observations on soybean aphids surprised us in 2014. First is that we saw soybean aphids at all. Since 2001-when soybean aphids were first detected in Ohio-we have had aphid outbreaks every other year (i.e. in odd numbered years). But in 2014, soyb ...
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Stalk Rots Showing Up in Some Corn Fields
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-33/stalk-rots-showing-some-corn-fields
As corn harvest beings across the state, reports of stalk rot are coming in from some locations. Several factors may contribute to stalk rot, including extreme weather conditions, insects and diseases. Although it is often difficult to distinguish between ...
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Corn Grain Test Weight
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-33/corn-grain-test-weight
Among the top 10 most discussed (and cussed) topics at hometown cafes during harvest season is the test weight of the grain being reported from corn fields in the neighborhood. Test weight is measured in the U.S. in terms of pounds of grain per volumetric ...
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Pricing Standing Corn for Silage Harvest – 2014
If it’s late summer it’s time to talk about pricing a corn crop standing in the field for corn silage. This is always a challenging question as there are a number of factors that contribute to the final price agreed upon by the buyer and seller that are ...
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Assessing yield losses in corn due to frost
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-32/assessing-yield-losses-corn-due-frost
With scattered frosts predicted in parts of Ohio tonight, it may be time to consider the impact of frost injury to corn that has not yet achieved kernel “black layer”. Black layer is the stage at which kernel growth ceases and maximum kernel dry weight is ...
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Soybean Cyst Nematode expands range in Ohio
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2014-04/soybean-cyst-nematode-expands-range-ohio
Approximately every three years the map is updated where SCN is found in the US. To do this task records from the diagnostic clinic and data from field studies are collected and the findings are plotted on the map. Greg Tylka from Iowa State University ...
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ATI's Peggy Lambert receives Distinguished Staff Award
https://ati.osu.edu/news/atis-peggy-lambert-receives-distinguished-staff-award
Peggy Lambert, academic records coordinator at Ohio State ATI, is one of four CFAES recipients of the 2013 Distinguished Staff Awards. The annual awards recognize 12 university staff members, who have had five years of continuous service, for exceptional ...
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ATI students designing bee-friendly landscape for A.I. Root
https://ati.osu.edu/news/ati-students-designing-bee-friendly-landscape-for-ai-root
What do candles and flowers have in common (besides romantic candlelight dinners)? Bees, of course, and the A.I. Root Company in Medina has sought to bring its history as a cand le maker and bee steward together in a project involving ATI's landsc ...
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From Wet Weather to Dry Weather…
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2015-27/wet-weather-dry-weather%E2%80%A6
Most areas in Ohio experienced above average rainfall during soybean vegetative stages. With wet weather, soybeans tend to have reduced tap root growth and increased lateral root growth near the soil surface(photo example). This is a problem when the we ...