The 2010 Winter Wheat Workshops are slated for March 18, 24, and 26. The attached flyer provides specific contact information for each location, but the March 18 meeting will occur […]
We have recently completed the development of a Winter Wheat Variety by Disease Database (version 1.0) based on results from the 2009 Winter Wheat Performance Trials in Wisconsin. The goal […]
With the wide-spread reports of White mold (or Sclerotinia stem rot, SSR) this year in Wisconsin and across the region, we have been fielding many questions about control options. In […]
We have been receiving multiple questions about the potential yield loss in soybean fields where white mold has been observed in 2009. As soybean moves into the R6 and R7 […]
Sclerotinia Stem Rot: Over the past week, we have continued to receive numerous questions regarding Sclerotinia stem rot (aka, white mold) and the control of this disease using foliar fungicides. […]
We have been receiving lots of reports of downy mildew of soybean throughout the state. Downy mildew is common disease of soybean that rarely affects soybean yield in the state. […]
Yesterday (8/6), both Shawn and I received the first report of wheat grain being rejected at the elevator for too high of level of DON. DON, which stands for deoxynivalenol, […]
We have started to receive some reports of stressed fields where the verbal description of the field situation is very similar to 2008. As a frame of reference, as well […]
During this past week, Karen Lackermann (MS Student in Plant Pathology) collected field data to estimate the incidence and severity of Fusarium head blight in the Winter Wheat Variety Trials […]
Weather conditions last week were rather hot and humid early in the week, as temperatures were in the low 90s throughout many our research project areas. Late in the week, […]
