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2022 Applied Research Report now available

  • February 1, 2023

  • Nick Seiter

Image of the cover for the 2022 Applied Research Results Field Crop Disease and Insect Management report. Evaluations of insect and disease control tactics for corn, soybean, and wheat. Statewide surveys of corn and soybean pests. Includes Illinois Extension Block "I" logo.
The 2022 report of Applied Research on field crop insects is now available for download online at https://go.illinois.edu/2022PestPathogenARB. The report has a rootworm-heavy emphasis this year, with 12 field evaluations of traits and insecticides, Bt-resistance bioassay results for western and northern corn rootworm, continuing work on entomopathogenic nematodes, and new work evaluating corn rootworm adult sampling methods. In addition, you can find the results of our annual statewide insect survey,…

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2023 Illinois Crop Management Conference

  • January 24, 2023

  • Talon Becker

If you haven’t already, there is still time to register at the early bird rate for the Illinois Crop Management Conferences in Champaign and Sycamore.  We will also be offering an online option, as we have the past couple years, for those that prefer to view recorded presentations as their schedule allows.
CHAMPAIGN | FEB. 7
REGISTER HERE – https://go.illinois.edu/23CMC-Champaign
AGENDA – CLICK HERE
Registration on or before Jan. 31 is $80;…

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Evaluating Yield Response of Biological Seed Treatments in Soybean – 2022 Illinois Project Update

  • January 24, 2023

  • Giovani Preza Fontes

Biological seed treatment is a growing market in the U.S., with several new products being available to growers every year. These products are marketed to increase grain yield and return on investment by the action of a single or a mix of plant-beneficial microbes (e.g., arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, N-fixing bacteria, and P-solubilizing microbes). Given high commodity prices, growers are interested in understanding the benefits of applying biological products to the seed. In 2022, we evaluated nine commonly marketed biological seed treatment products at two locations in Illinois.…

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2023 Illinois Farm Economics Summit

  • January 3, 2023

  • Todd Gleason


Welcome to IFES 2023.  That’s right.  The Illinois Farm Economics Summit has moved to January.
The members of the farmdoc team from the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and University of Illinois Extension will be holding a series of three Illinois Farm Economics Summit meetings to help producers understand the past year and plan for the next.
Join us for a long waited return to in person IFES meetings!
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Registration is $80 online,…

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Register for the Farm Assets Conference

  • November 11, 2022

  • Todd Gleason


i-Hotel & Conference Center
1900 S First Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
Monday, November 21, 2022
Register at farmassetsconference.com

This year’s University of Illinois Farm Assets Conference will be held in-person at the i-Hotel in Champaign, Illinois on Monday, November 21, 2022. Please plan to spend the day with the farmdoc Team, industry specialists, WILLAg commodity analysts, and U of I crop scientists as we explore topics that directly impact the farm.…

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Fall-Applied Herbicides: Which Weed Species Should be the Target?

  • October 27, 2022

  • Aaron Hager

Herbicides applied in the fall often can provide improved control of many winter annual weed species compared with similar applications made in the spring. Marestail is one example of a weed species that is often better controlled with herbicides applied in the fall compared with the spring. An increasing frequency of marestail populations in Illinois are resistant to glyphosate, and resistance to ALS-inhibiting herbicides also is present in Illinois populations. Targeting emerged marestail with higher application rates of products such as 2,4-D in the fall almost always results in better control at planting compared with targeting overwintered and often larger plants with lower rates of 2,4-D in the spring.…

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Fertilizing with High-Priced P and K

  • October 21, 2022

  • Giovani Preza Fontes

As the 2022 season winds down, farmers are thinking about their fertility program for the 2023 growing season. While fertilizer prices have declined since spring, fertilizer prices remain high, and fertilizer costs are significantly higher than a year ago (farmdoc daily, 12:148). With continued high fertilizer prices, making every pound of fertilizer count is essential. The most important thing to be as efficient as possible is reviewing a few principles related to soil fertility.…

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Introducing Giovani Preza Fontes, Field Crops Extension Agronomist

  • October 19, 2022

  • Giovani Preza Fontes

I am pleased to introduce myself as the new Assistant Professor & Field Crops Extension Agronomist with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. I’m a U of I alum and am thrilled to be back in Illinois to serve U of I students and agricultural stakeholders through teaching, research, and extension.
I was born and raised in Midwestern Brazil, in the state of Mato Grosso (the top soybean producer in Brazil, with ~27.4 million acres planted in 2021/22).…

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Fall Nitrogen

  • October 19, 2022

  • Emerson Nafziger

Harvest in Illinois continues to lag some, with 47% of the corn crop and 55% of the soybean crop harvested by October 16. The dry weather continues this week, which should allow harvest to progress. The projected Illinois corn yield for 2022 increased to 210 bushels per acre in the October crop production report from NASS. Projected soybean yield stayed at 64 bushels per acre.
As harvest progresses the focus to fall application of nitrogen fertilizer,…

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Why are the Corn and Soybean Crops Drying So Slowly?

  • October 5, 2022

  • Emerson Nafziger

As corn approached maturity in early September, warm temperatures and forecasts for dry weather had us looking forward to an early start to harvest for the 2022 corn crop, and a slightly delayed but rapid movement towards getting soybeans harvested as well. Instead, both crops have languished, with corn only 63% mature and 13% harvested, and only 10% of the soybean crop harvested by October 2.
The first thing that comes to mind as an explanation for the slow drying is the cool weather in recent weeks.…

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