Deciding Between Grain and Forage Harvest for Late Maturing Corn
By Stephen K. Barnhart and Roger W. Elmore, Department of Agronomy
Integrated Crop Management News
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Deciding Between Grain and Forage Harvest for Late Maturing Soybeans
By Stephen K. Barnhart and Palle Pedersen, Department of Agronomy
Late season evaluation involves reviewing normal crop growth and development, assessing the condition of the crops in individual fields relative to normal, and thinking through several autumn season scenarios such as: How will this field develop between now and the normal frost time? What are the concerns or alternatives if a frost comes one or two weeks earlier than normal?
Fall Frost Effects of Forage
By Stephen K. Barnhart, Department of Agronomy
The first frost of the autumn generally brings a flurry of forage related questions centered around three general topics:
- toxic prussic acid potential and management of frosted sudangrass and sorghum sudangrass hybrids;
- is frosted alfalfa toxic to grazing animals; and
- now that we've had frost, should I harvest the last alfalfa cutting?
Make the Right Tillage Management Decision
by Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Department of Agronomy, and Mark Hanna, Department of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering