News
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Southwest Michigan field crop update – May 31, 2019
Published on May 31, 2019
With drier weather in the forecast, growers must decide whether they will be able to get planted as soils dry out or consider other options this year.
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Field Crop Virtual Breakfast on May 30 will discuss prevented planting crop insurance considerations
Published on May 23, 2019
MSU Extension’s Field Crop Virtual Breakfast continues May 30 with a discussion on factors to consider if wet conditions continue and fields remain too wet to plant by the crop insurance coverage deadlines.
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Central Michigan field crop update – May 23, 2019
Published on May 23, 2019
Farmers took advantage of the small planting window.
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Southwest Michigan field crop update – May 23, 2019
Published on May 23, 2019
Southwest Michigan planting progress continues to crawl.
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MSU Cover Crop Team Webinar Series: Interseeding cover crops in corn in Michigan
Published on May 21, 2019
The second webinar in this series highlights research at MSU on interseeding cover crops into standing corn.
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Economic considerations of replacing existing wheat with corn or soybeans
Published on May 21, 2019
Understanding the potential of harvesting the year's harvest of wheat, and how to make sure the harvest is successful.
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Black cutworms are here
Published on May 20, 2019
However, do not spray fields for cutworm unless you find them in your fields! Trap numbers in Indiana indicate we won’t have a lot of colonization.
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Organic grain crop enterprise budgets are available
Published on May 17, 2019
Tools for growers looking to establish or expand an organic grain farm.
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The art and science of variable rate seeding
Published on May 16, 2019
Variable rate seeding could reduce input costs in low productivity areas and increase your yields in high productivity areas.
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Farmers in southeast Michigan talk about nitrogen sensing technology
Published on May 15, 2019
How variable nitrogen application through the use of nitrogen sensing technology is helping farmers to minimize nitrogen losses and reduce costs.
