News
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MSU Plant & Pest Diagnostics gets a brand-new website
Published on September 24, 2019
We invite you to explore our new website to learn about new services and reconnect with our diagnosticians.
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Check fields for tar spot if your later-planted corn is turning every color except green
Published on September 13, 2019
Corn tar spot symptoms are becoming more widespread across southwest Michigan.
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Camera or drone video can help identify center pivot sprinkler repairs
Published on September 13, 2019
Before you put the pivot away for the season, use a camera or drone video of pivot water patterns and pipe leaks to greatly help winter irrigation repairs.
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Management guidelines for immature and frosted corn silage
Published on September 12, 2019
Management adjustments are needed when harvest maturity is not ideal.
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MSU seeks farmer input on wildlife damage to crops
Published on September 10, 2019
Researchers at Michigan State University are looking to identify wildlife management priorities for agriculture.
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Options for immature corn
Published on September 4, 2019
One challenge this year is wondering whether the corn crop will mature before frost and what to do with it if it does not. This is an opportune year for cash crop producers and livestock producers to be talking with one another about feed options.
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Cover crop recipes: Post corn, use cereal rye
Published on September 4, 2019
The following recipe provides an introductory approach to integrating cover crops into a corn rotation going to soybean.
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Michigan State University agricultural economists discuss possible effects of wet spring and delayed planting on food prices
Published on August 27, 2019
David Ortega and Jim Hilker, faculty in MSU’s Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, say impacts of delayed planting on food costs likely won’t be known until after the fall harvest.
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GreenSeeker tool might help reduce your nitrogen costs
Published on August 19, 2019
Handheld crop sensors such as the GreenSeeker can be used to estimate in-season nitrogen needs in corn.
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Assessing late planted corn for harvest as forages
Published on August 15, 2019
The U2U tool developed by several Midwest land grant universities can help assess and predict corn maturity.
