Corn

Agronomy Newsletter -November 2023, Volume 14, Issue 8. Topics include: Flame Weeding for Early-Season Weed Control, Optimizing Early Season Pest Management for Maryland Field Corn, Effects of Cover Crops and Nitrogen Rates on Corn Yields, 2023/2024 UME Crop Production Meetings, Soybean Foliar Fungicide Trials, 2023 Maryland Tar Spot Research, Effects of Increasing Corn Tissue Boron and Sulfur Concentrations on Nitrogen and Yield , Corn Planting Timing Effects on Yield and the Relationship to Deer Feeding , Soil Texture Relationships to Grid Sampled Coastal Soils, Nutrient Management Update, Advanced Cover Cropping Field Day, 2023 Maryland Corn Hybrid Trials, SBA Disaster Loan Program, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports

Tar spot of corn has been confirmed in Maryland for the 2023 growing season. The first report came from a field in Cecil county, followed by several additional reports in Harford and Carroll county.

During the month of September we have confirmed the presence of tar spot of corn in four additional counties in Maryland. Fields with tar spot in Queen Anne’s and Kent County were found on September 19, Baltimore County on September 22, and Caroline County on September 25. This brings the confirmed distribution from Carroll County east to Cecil and south on the shore to Caroline county (Figure 1).

Agronomy Newsletter -October 2023, Volume 14, Issue 7. Topics include: Pesticide & Nutrient Management Trainings, EPA Webinar on Bulletins Live Two, 2023 Crop Management School Registration, Scout for Aphids in Small Grains, 2022-2023 Cover Crop Growth and Tillage, On-Farm Research Trials, Tar Spot Confirmed in Additional Counties, Job Openings: Nutrient Management Advisors, Updated Tax Credits for Farmer Food Donations, Farm Storage Facility Loan Program, Cost-Share for Manure Transport & Injection, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy Newsletter -September 2023, Volume 14, Issue 6. Topics include: Farmland Rental Averages, Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School, Nutrient Management Farmer Training, Tar Spot Confirmed in Maryland for 2023, SARE Farmer Grants, Nitrogen Modeling Survey, Beneficial Stink Bugs in Crops, Deer Damage Survey, Wildlife Wednesday Webinars, On-Farm Research Trials, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

All eyes have been on news headlines coming from the Black Sea for the last two to three weeks since the termination of the previous agreement between Russia and Ukraine. The escalation in the war between these two nations has seen drone strikes, missile engagements, and major destruction of Black Sea ports like Odessa in Ukraine. Traders have watched these headlines and acted accordingly in the market place as the price of corn and wheat retraced previous months losses.

What a droughty spring means for corn and soybeans. Andrew Kness shares his views on the pressing issue.

Agronomy News-May 2023, Volume 14, Issue 2. Topics in this issue are Up and Down: Maryland Weather at its Finest, How’s That Burndown Looking?, Wet Cool Spring May Increase Slug Damage, Managing Fusarium Head Blight in Small Grains: Symptoms, Favorable Environments, and Disease Management Strategies, Maryland Weather Outlook, Maryland Regional Crop Reports, MDA Pesticide Container Recycling Program Ending, Don’t Forget to Take a Manure Test, Pythium Root Rot in Corn, USDA Still Accepting Census of Ag Responses From MD Producers, April 2023 Grain Market Update (information from USDA WASDE report), Managing and Scouting Fields for Fusarium Head Blight, New Web-Based Soybean Herbicide Tool, and Bt and Herbicide Tolerant Traits in Corn and Current Resistance of Target Insect Pests.