The July 24 Badger Crop Connect webinar featured Dr. Shawn Conley, Extension Soybean and Small Grains Agronomist and Professor in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Shawn discusses preliminary results from 2024 Wisconsin winter wheat performance trials including yield, test weight and disease presence data; cover crop challenges in 2024; and the status of soybean stands across Wisconsin.
The July 24 Badger Crop Connect webinar featured Dr. Damon Smith, Extension field crops pathologist and Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin–Madison. Damon gives an update on what diseases he’s seeing in Wisconsin farm fields in late July 2024. He mainly discusses white mold in soybean and tar spot in corn and management practices for each.
Japanese beetles (Popillia japonica) are an invasive beetle that feed on the leaves and flowers of crops, including corn and soybeans.
Damon Smith, UW–Madison Extension field crops pathologist, and Michael Geissinger, outreach specialist with UW-Madison Extension Nutrient & Pest Management in Northwest Wisconsin, talk about the conditions this year, what that means for tar spot development, and management considerations for controlling it if it shows up in your field.
Tools are available to help corn growers and dairy and livestock producers negotiate a fair price for corn silage.
True armyworm (Mythimna unipuncta) is a pest of corn and small grains known for migrating in large groups when its preferred food source is depleted. Pastures and grassy hay fields are also at risk of damage.
The May 22 Badger Crop Connect session features Dr. Damon Smith, Professor and Extension Specialist of Field Crops Pathology. Damon talks about the disease situation in field crops as the field season gets started.
The May 22 Badger Crop Connect session features Dr. Rodrigo Werle, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist of Weed Science.
Alfalfa is a valuable forage crop in Wisconsin that supports dairy and livestock production. Alfalfa can be threatened by the alfalfa weevil (Hypera postica), an early-season pest that feeds on alfalfa leaves and may severely damage first-crop and second-crop alfalfa fields.
The May 8 Badger Crop Connect session features Dr. Emily Bick, an Assistant Professor of Precision Pest Ecology & Extension Specialist for Field & Forage Crops at UW—Madison.
A researcher’s perspective. This is one of a nine-part video series on the basics of planting corn and soybean into a green living cover crop. In this video, Dan Smith, Extension Nutrient and Pest Management program manager, and Rodrigo Werle, an associate professor in the UW–Madison Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences and Extension weed […]
This publication provides a starting point of reference when considering using cover crops following herbicides in the cropping system. It outlines rotational intervals for many commonly used herbicides in Wisconsin. However, it is important to note that this article does not replace the information provided on herbicide labels. What is a rotational interval? The rotational […]
