By Phil Cameron and Morgan Kluka
Summer Interns - University of Guelph
With the exceptionally warm weather of this year bringing the expectance of earlier crops, it is also important to consider early insect emergence. By monitoring the Western Bean Cutworm (WBC) moth flight of your corn or edible bean fields, you can begin to predict when your crops will become most threatened. Tracking moth flight can be done by using a trapping system.
Spring Update Articles Courtesy of GROWMARK Agronomy Division
PURSUIT OF MAXIMUM YIELD ESSENTIALS
Pursuit of Maximum Yield continues to be a program of interest with many growers. Lessons learned from 2011 suggest we need all of the five factors (listed below) in order to minimize the risk of any of them being yield limiting factors (Law of the Minimum). Leaving out any of the following five factors may result in a disappointing outcome to the trial.
Black Cutworm By Dale Cowan CCA-ON
Senior Agronomist/Sales Manager
Southern Co-operative Services
The black cutworm is a corn pest to some degree each year in southwestern Ontario. This year is no exception and may well be a bigger issue. The early spring resulted in early green up of weedy areas in field. This has provided ample egg laying sites for the adult moths that blow in on storm fronts from the US Corn Belt.
