Crop Conditions: Hay Simple Storage Service
Oneida Madison Scouting Report June 5, 2015 Weather: For the week ending on May 31st Running total of GDD,s base 48 starting April 13th as of May 31st for alfalfa weevil = 666. The larva usually start cocooning phase at 600 GDDs so we should be beyond the damage phase of this pest for this year. The usual recommendation for control is to harvest alfalfa fields early so if you see shot holes in alfalfa…. Harvest is your solution. If you see shotholes in alfalfa regrowth you can sweep the alfalfa to look for cocoons, if found, that would indicate that no control is necessary. Rainfall was 1.3” for the week
Cropping activities: Rain occurred in some areas on Wednesday and in most areas on Saturday and Sunday.
Most growers were out harvesting hay and may have been able to harvest more hay before Saturday. A few more fields were planted to corn and soy.
GDDs base 48 F 2015
Weekly rainfall (in) County 2015
800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0
Verona
New Hartford
Chadwicks
Crop Conditions: Hay Many hay fields were mowed, chopped and put in storage this week. Growers are reporting lower yields in both alfalfa and grass fields. If you think that you will need more forage and have grass stands You can apply up to 75lbs of N/acre to boost both yield and protein levels in the next harvest. Consider using agrotain or super U to reduce volatilization losses of N unless your spinning on urea before a rain. If you alfalfa fields need P+K they can be applied after harvest at whatever rates are recommended by soil test. Just remember to apply within 5 days of harvest to prevent traffic damage to alfalfa crowns
Verona
NewHartford
Chadwicks
A number of hay fields still have to be harvested. As they continue to mature the quality continues to decline. If you have an opportunity to segregate the hay by quality this will give you more opportunity later to allocate the different quality levels of forages to the right group of animals. If many different levels of quality forage are going into the same upright silo, remember that you can mark changes of forage by sending up colorful inert plastic objects into the silo that can indicate the need to send in a forage analysis when recovered at feeding.
The picture to the left shows a grass field that was harvested around the 25th of May. It shows how much regrowth has occurred since then. To manage grass hay for high quality forage for lactating cows N should be applied at about 75 lbs of N/ac (150lbs of urea + 30lbs of ammonium sulfate) after each cutting for the next harvest. A date 30 days after harvest should be marked on the calendar as the goal date for the next harvest. Chop length (TLC) should be determined based on consultation with a nutritionist and screening results of total mixed rations from the manger and consideration of packing in storage.
Potato leaf hopper (PLH) The next potential pest we should start to look for in our alfalfa fields is potato leaf hopper. It doesn't over winter so must be transported from the south each season. If you have been following the weather patterns recently you know that much of our recent storms came from the south and some PLH may have hitch hiked and dropped in our area. If you have the potential to be short on hay crop forage you don’t want to loose any yield or quality to this pest. The only way to scout for the is pest is to sweep fields with a 15” diameter net. Sweep nets can be bought from any of the following companies: BioQuip Products 17803 LaSalle Avenue, Gar dena, Califor nia 90248-3602 Phone: 310-324-0620 , Fax: 310-324-7931 Web: www.bioquip.com Sweep Nets Company, 3473 Meadowlands Ln, San J ose, CA 95135, Phone: 408-528-9283, Web: www.sweepnets.com Great Lakes IPM, INC, 10220 Chur ch Road, Vestabur g, MI 48891-9746, Phone: 989-268-5693 / 989-268-5911 Fax: 989-268-5311, Web: www.greatlakesipm.com
Gempler’s PO Box 270 211 Blue Mounds Road Mt. Horeb, WI 53572 Phone: 1-800-382-8473 (orders) Phone: 1-800-332-6744 (customer service) Fax: 1-800-551-1128 Web: www.gemplers.com
Pasture Gr ower s have been on pastur es for at least a month now. Weeds ar e pr obably r eadily appar ent at this time. Many companies have come up with different designs for wick applicators that can be used to selectively apply something like roundup directly to the weeds without contacting your pasture grasses and legumes. Here are the names of some companies that sell wick applicators: http://www.agrisupply.com/wick-applicators/c/4200053/ http://www.rodgersinc.com/ The month of June we usually see a build up in the population of flies antagonizing livestock. Keith Waldron, NYSIPM will Join Marylynn Collins, CCE Oneida county to ddress fly management at The Lappin Farm 3760 Sheehan Rd., Taberg, NY on June 24th from 11:00-1:30.
Corn Cutworm moths fly into our area from the south and west. They usually like to lay their eggs in weedy fields so their larva have a food source. Cut plants like the one to the left are usually the first thing that you will observe since this pest is soft bodied and avoids the drying rays of the sun harboring themselves under crop residue during the day and feeding at night. Scouting for this pest and for that matter timing of application of insecticides when warranted is best accomplished at dusk. If you have 5% damage or more in pockets of the field and the larva are 1/2” or less then you should consider applying an appropriate insecticide to those localized pockets.
The chewing damage on the perimeter of the leaf in the photo to the left could indicate armyworm feeding. Don’t panic !! You can find this kind of feeding damage in little spots in many fields the problem becomes when this is common place in a field. If you have 5% damage or more in pockets of the field and the larva are 1.5” or less then you should consider applying an appropriate insecticide to those localized pockets.
The row of round shotholes in the corn leaf above is a sign of European corn borer feeding. Again, no need to panic unless you see this on a large number of plants. If you did see large numbers the field could be treated with an appropriate insecticide at tassle initiation but this is usually uneconomical for field corn. If you plan to plant a field like this back to corn the following year you should consider purchasing a variety that is a GMO with the appropriate BT for European corn borer.
Corn Herbicide effectiveness
P R E E M E R G E N C E BROADLEAF ANNUALS Wild Buckwheat Common Lambsquarter Wild Mustard Redroot Pigweed Common Ragweed Velvetleaf ANNUAL GRASSES Barnyardgrass Crabgrass Foxtails Fall Panicum Witchgrass Corn Tolerance Wirestem muhly Quackgrass Nutsedge (yellow) E = excellent G = good F = fair P = poor N = none
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Corn plants pulled out of the ground with the roots intact and no seed are indicative of bird damage. Bill Pardee’s rule was if you have more than 16,000 plants per acre you should leave the field, less replant. If you replant plant deeper, like 3”. If ther has been some amount of time ie a week or two the birds may have moved on to another field and will be less likely to feed on the newly planted seed.
Soybeans
Some bean fields are still being planted at this time. Some are starting to germinate like the ones in the photo to the right and some are almost at the first trifioliate stage like the photo below. Reminder: double inoculate soybean seed that is being planted in a field for the first time and monitor the color of the plants. Dig a few plants just prior to flowering to look for nodules. If no nodules are present consider applying up to 40 lbs of N/ac. Apply roundup 3-4 weeks after planting
Small Grain
Fusarium Alert Many local wheat fields were in flower like the wheat in the phot to the left. Unfortunately if we have highly humid conditions for many hours during flowering it is supportive of infection with fusarium and increases the risk that the wheat will have DON muycotoxins at levels that will prevent the crop being sold for food. Gary Bergstrom made a statement recently where he stated that the dry weather this spring should have reduced the amount of inoculum in our area. The decision falls back on the producer weather to spray prosaro or Caramba on their crops to control fusarium or not. Unfortunately there is a very small window to spray– 4-5 days after flowering.
The small acreage of triticale we had was harvested at boot stage last week.
Cropping activities: Rain occurred in some areas on Wednesday and in most areas on Saturday and Sunday.
Most growers were out harvesting hay and may have been able to harvest more hay before Saturday. A few more fields were planted to corn and soy.
GDDs base 48 F 2015
Weekly rainfall (in) County 2015
800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
1.8 1.6 1.4 1.2 1 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0
Verona
New Hartford
Chadwicks
Crop Conditions: Hay Many hay fields were mowed, chopped and put in storage this week. Growers are reporting lower yields in both alfalfa and grass fields. If you think that you will need more forage and have grass stands You can apply up to 75lbs of N/acre to boost both yield and protein levels in the next harvest. Consider using agrotain or super U to reduce volatilization losses of N unless your spinning on urea before a rain. If you alfalfa fields need P+K they can be applied after harvest at whatever rates are recommended by soil test. Just remember to apply within 5 days of harvest to prevent traffic damage to alfalfa crowns
Verona
NewHartford
Chadwicks
A number of hay fields still have to be harvested. As they continue to mature the quality continues to decline. If you have an opportunity to segregate the hay by quality this will give you more opportunity later to allocate the different quality levels of forages to the right group of animals. If many different levels of quality forage are going into the same upright silo, remember that you can mark changes of forage by sending up colorful inert plastic objects into the silo that can indicate the need to send in a forage analysis when recovered at feeding.
The picture to the left shows a grass field that was harvested around the 25th of May. It shows how much regrowth has occurred since then. To manage grass hay for high quality forage for lactating cows N should be applied at about 75 lbs of N/ac (150lbs of urea + 30lbs of ammonium sulfate) after each cutting for the next harvest. A date 30 days after harvest should be marked on the calendar as the goal date for the next harvest. Chop length (TLC) should be determined based on consultation with a nutritionist and screening results of total mixed rations from the manger and consideration of packing in storage.
Potato leaf hopper (PLH) The next potential pest we should start to look for in our alfalfa fields is potato leaf hopper. It doesn't over winter so must be transported from the south each season. If you have been following the weather patterns recently you know that much of our recent storms came from the south and some PLH may have hitch hiked and dropped in our area. If you have the potential to be short on hay crop forage you don’t want to loose any yield or quality to this pest. The only way to scout for the is pest is to sweep fields with a 15” diameter net. Sweep nets can be bought from any of the following companies: BioQuip Products 17803 LaSalle Avenue, Gar dena, Califor nia 90248-3602 Phone: 310-324-0620 , Fax: 310-324-7931 Web: www.bioquip.com Sweep Nets Company, 3473 Meadowlands Ln, San J ose, CA 95135, Phone: 408-528-9283, Web: www.sweepnets.com Great Lakes IPM, INC, 10220 Chur ch Road, Vestabur g, MI 48891-9746, Phone: 989-268-5693 / 989-268-5911 Fax: 989-268-5311, Web: www.greatlakesipm.com
Gempler’s PO Box 270 211 Blue Mounds Road Mt. Horeb, WI 53572 Phone: 1-800-382-8473 (orders) Phone: 1-800-332-6744 (customer service) Fax: 1-800-551-1128 Web: www.gemplers.com
Pasture Gr ower s have been on pastur es for at least a month now. Weeds ar e pr obably r eadily appar ent at this time. Many companies have come up with different designs for wick applicators that can be used to selectively apply something like roundup directly to the weeds without contacting your pasture grasses and legumes. Here are the names of some companies that sell wick applicators: http://www.agrisupply.com/wick-applicators/c/4200053/ http://www.rodgersinc.com/ The month of June we usually see a build up in the population of flies antagonizing livestock. Keith Waldron, NYSIPM will Join Marylynn Collins, CCE Oneida county to ddress fly management at The Lappin Farm 3760 Sheehan Rd., Taberg, NY on June 24th from 11:00-1:30.
Corn Cutworm moths fly into our area from the south and west. They usually like to lay their eggs in weedy fields so their larva have a food source. Cut plants like the one to the left are usually the first thing that you will observe since this pest is soft bodied and avoids the drying rays of the sun harboring themselves under crop residue during the day and feeding at night. Scouting for this pest and for that matter timing of application of insecticides when warranted is best accomplished at dusk. If you have 5% damage or more in pockets of the field and the larva are 1/2” or less then you should consider applying an appropriate insecticide to those localized pockets.
The chewing damage on the perimeter of the leaf in the photo to the left could indicate armyworm feeding. Don’t panic !! You can find this kind of feeding damage in little spots in many fields the problem becomes when this is common place in a field. If you have 5% damage or more in pockets of the field and the larva are 1.5” or less then you should consider applying an appropriate insecticide to those localized pockets.
The row of round shotholes in the corn leaf above is a sign of European corn borer feeding. Again, no need to panic unless you see this on a large number of plants. If you did see large numbers the field could be treated with an appropriate insecticide at tassle initiation but this is usually uneconomical for field corn. If you plan to plant a field like this back to corn the following year you should consider purchasing a variety that is a GMO with the appropriate BT for European corn borer.
Corn Herbicide effectiveness
P R E E M E R G E N C E BROADLEAF ANNUALS Wild Buckwheat Common Lambsquarter Wild Mustard Redroot Pigweed Common Ragweed Velvetleaf ANNUAL GRASSES Barnyardgrass Crabgrass Foxtails Fall Panicum Witchgrass Corn Tolerance Wirestem muhly Quackgrass Nutsedge (yellow) E = excellent G = good F = fair P = poor N = none
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O U T L O O K
W A R R A N T
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Corn plants pulled out of the ground with the roots intact and no seed are indicative of bird damage. Bill Pardee’s rule was if you have more than 16,000 plants per acre you should leave the field, less replant. If you replant plant deeper, like 3”. If ther has been some amount of time ie a week or two the birds may have moved on to another field and will be less likely to feed on the newly planted seed.
Soybeans
Some bean fields are still being planted at this time. Some are starting to germinate like the ones in the photo to the right and some are almost at the first trifioliate stage like the photo below. Reminder: double inoculate soybean seed that is being planted in a field for the first time and monitor the color of the plants. Dig a few plants just prior to flowering to look for nodules. If no nodules are present consider applying up to 40 lbs of N/ac. Apply roundup 3-4 weeks after planting
Small Grain
Fusarium Alert Many local wheat fields were in flower like the wheat in the phot to the left. Unfortunately if we have highly humid conditions for many hours during flowering it is supportive of infection with fusarium and increases the risk that the wheat will have DON muycotoxins at levels that will prevent the crop being sold for food. Gary Bergstrom made a statement recently where he stated that the dry weather this spring should have reduced the amount of inoculum in our area. The decision falls back on the producer weather to spray prosaro or Caramba on their crops to control fusarium or not. Unfortunately there is a very small window to spray– 4-5 days after flowering.
The small acreage of triticale we had was harvested at boot stage last week.
