• Cover Crop Recipes: Post Wheat, Going to Soybean or Corn: Use Oats and Radish Mix

    Published on August 23, 2019
    This publication is intended to provide a starting point for farmers who are new to growing cover crops. With experience, farmers may fine-tune the use of cover crops for their systems.

  • Wheat Season Update

    Published on May 23, 2019
    The MSU Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast weekly topic for May 23, 2019, was a wheat season update presented by Dennis Pennington, MSU Extension wheat specialist.

  • Assessing Winter Wheat Stands in Michigan

    Published on May 2, 2019
    The MSU Extension Field Crops Virtual Breakfast weekly topic for May 2, 2019, focused on assessing winter wheat stands, presented by Dennis Pennington, MSU Extension wheat specialist.

  • The 2017 ReNAPRI Outlook on Maize, Wheat, Rice, Soybeans and Sugar

    Published on December 1, 2017
    Ferdi Meyer. Presenter: Tracy Davids. ReNAPRI meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 2017

  • 2016 TARE Field Trials

    Published on January 1, 2017
    This report represents the 12th year of a multi-county strategy for evaluating corn hybrids and soybean varieties as well as agronomic practices in Michigan’s Thumb.

  • Wheat Fertility and Fertilization

    Published on September 15, 2016
    This bulletin discusses how a field should be fertilized to get the maximum expected yield.

  • 2015 TARE Field Trials

    Published on January 1, 2016
    This report represents the eleventh year of a multi-county strategy for evaluating corn hybrids and soybean varieties as well as agronomic practices in Michigan’s Thumb.

  • Integrated Pest Management Scouting in Field Crops

    Published on November 23, 2015
    Scouting and monitoring are critical steps in pest management that allow managers to quantify pest pressure and the potential for crop damage.

  • No-Till Drilling Cover Crops after Wheat Harvest and their Influence on next season's corn

    Published on November 6, 2015
    Over the past five years, Michigan has seen a 22 percent decline in wheat acres (Mich. Ag Stats, 2000-01).This decline is primarily because the markets for wheat have not been competitive with those for other field crops.

  • 2014 TARE Field Trials

    Published on January 1, 2015
    This report represents the tenth year of a multi-county strategy for evaluating corn hybrids and soybean varieties as well as agronomic practices.