Quick Guide to Cover Crops for Forage 2019 Seeding rates, dates, yield potential and much more information relating to the cultivation and suitability of various cover crop species for use as forages. This Quick Guide was coordinated by...
Agronomic considerations regarding the use of corn as a cover crop include the following: This is an excerpt from a formal letter Emerson Nafziger and I wrote on this issue. A link to the letter is included below. 1. Neither seed nor grain produced from seed of...
University of Illinois Extension Specialists and Educators created the following checklist of common late planting questions. Corn planting continues in Illinois - should I change maturities? For planting by mid-June, the northern tiers of counties probably need hybrids that are...
An update to the chart adding Week#19. we are poised to be the second slowest planting season in the last 20 years at the need of week #19 (second week of May)
The 2018 planting season got off to a very late start and now in 2019 we are running even later. As the updated chart shows, delayed planting does not necessarily equate with lower yields.
Dr Emerson Nafziger, Professor Emeritus University of Illinois, recently updated the Illinois nitrogen response date by adding data from the 2018 field trials. This data has been incorporated into the MRTN website http://cnrc.agron.iastate.edu/ and...
Stealing a phrase from the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", there is still time to plant and get above average yields. The attached chart shows the Illinois corn planting progress chart since 1999 and the corresponding corn and soybean yields. I included the soybean yields because I have heard...
We often start April with some corn already planted and we normally end April with about 50 percent of the corn planted, based upon state averages published by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. The latest planting start in the last 20 years was in 2013 when only 1 percent of the crop...
The Soybean Seeding Calculator that Emerson Nafziger and I put together has moved to a new server. The old links went through a Dropbox folder. Unfortunately, Dropbox changed their sharing protocol and the links would no longer work and the links could not be changed. The University of Illinois...
