Hill and Furrow 2015

Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture is hosting an upcoming webinar entitled, "Making Long-Term Cash Rent Decisions Using a Cash Rent Decision Tool" to be held on Friday, December 18 between 8 and 9 a.m. (CST). The Director of...

Symptoms of bacterial blight are prevalent at the Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research & Demonstration Center in 2015. As the disease name suggests, bacterial blight is caused by a bacterium called Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. glycinea. Disease is favored by conditions...

Precipitation. May precipitation at the Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center (NWIARDC) totaled 4.76 inches - surpassing the total accumulated during the four previous months combined (Table) and totaling very close to the 30-year...

Do you produce soybeans in Illinois? Would you be willing to spend 10 minutes helping to tailor programs and projects geared toward improving future soybean yield and profitability? If your answer to both questions is "yes", assist a joint effort of personnel from the University of Illinois...

Corn planting date trials. Each year, personnel at the Northwestern Research and Demonstration Center establish a replicated planting date trial. The trial established this year will tell us, given the conditions that will be experienced by the crop from planting until harvest,...

As part of their Agrichemical Container Recycling Program, the Illinois Department of Agriculture has released the locations, dates and times for the single day collections this July and August (Figure). These single-day sites complement the three permanent container collection...

Although wheat is typically grown primarily in southern Illinois, where producers are then able plant double crop soybeans, some wheat is also produced throughout the rest of the state. At the Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center (NWIARDC), winter wheat has been...

The results of a study that was initiated at the Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research and Demonstration Center nearly 20 years ago (fall 2015) were recently summarized by University of Illinois Agronomist Dr. Emerson Nafziger. This study was designed to compare yields and returns among...

Through funding provided by the USDA-National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a group of researchers from nine different Midwestern states and Universities worked collaboratively to develop a series of decision support tools for Midwestern crop...

Be sure to mark your calendars for the 34th Annual Northwestern Illinois Agricultural Research & Demonstration Center Field Day - this July 28 beginning at 8 AM!  Come and visit with University of Illinois research and Extension personnel as they share the results of farm-practical disease...