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Green and Growing People have found noticeable damage to the edges of wheat fields that are adjacent to last year’s wheat, grassy field margins. Black grass bug, a native rangeland insect, is responsible for this crop injury. |
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Green and Growing Farmers and gardeners are inclined to discuss the weather. In this news column I review weather in Northeast Colorado east of I-25 from January 1st this year to now. |
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Green and Growing Alert: Check wheat & alfalfa for freeze injury, cutworms, and other wheat pests. See attached article on freeze injury in wheat. |
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Green and Growing Wheat Pest Update from Ned Tisserat. Army Cutworms. There are reports of army cutworms in pastures and in some wheat fields. The larvae of these moths can cause significant damage in some years. Dr. Frank Peairs has a fact sheet concerning this pest http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05503.html . Brown wheat mite. There are also some reports of brown wheat mite damage in the southeastern part of the state. See the following fact sheet for more details on this mite. http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05578.html Wheat fungicide table. Each year a committee of wheat pathologists puts together a table of commonly available fungicides for rusts and other leaf spot diseases. The table for this year is attached. The table includes the most widely marketed products, and is not intended to be a list of all labeled products. Wheat disease update. There are still no reports of stripe or leaf rust in Colorado or in neighboring states (see below). I know there are some growers who will apply or are considering applying a fungicide along with their herbicide application. As I have stated in previous years, I do not see the need for this fungicide application if there is no evidence of leaf diseases (tan spot, Septoria, powdery mildew, rust) in the field. This is especially true for dryland wheat. Also remember that these early applications will not last long enough to protect the flag leaf from rusts later in the season. That requires a spray nearer to flowering. |
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Green and Growing A Farm Estate and Transition Planning workshop will be held in Sterling, Colorado (April 8, 2013) at Logan County Extension Office, 508, S 10th Ave, Suite 1. The workshop is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. There is no charge for the workshop and a lunch will be provided. To register (and for questions) call the Rural Response Hotline at 1-800-464-0258. |
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Green and Growing Many area Corn farmers are facing reduced water supplies for irrigation this coming season. |
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Green and Growing USDA TO SURVEY FARMERS’ PLANTING INTENTIONS FOR 2013 |
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Green and Growing Are you ever confused by the names of new herbicides and herbicide premixes? You’re not alone most, if not all, are baffled by them. Ron Meyer, CSU’s Golden Plains Extension Agronomist, forwarded the following chart of herbicide premixes and what the active ingredients are in each of them. The chart was developed by Kansas State’s Weed Science Team. It includes the common name for each active ingredient as well as common trade names so that non-weed scientists can recognize each one. |
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Green and Growing Back Pain Didn’t Mean the End of Farming January 2013- Dusty Franklin has been actively involved with farming since he was six years old. |
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CSU to hold Drought Summit (Akron, Colo.) As calendar year 2012 came to a close, most of the State of Colorado was categorized in D2 – D4 drought stage. The outlook for 2013 is toward above average temperatures and average to below average precipitation. |
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Green and Growing I recently wrote about methods that corn farmers could use to cope with drought. This week I will show how high corn yields can be achieved with limited irrigation water supplies when the corn crop is part of a rotational cropping system. |
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Green and Growing All indications are that farmers will very likely have to cope with another hot and dry growing season in 2013. |
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Green and Growing Fort Morgan/Weldona 2012 Christmas Bird Count Results The longest running Citizen Science survey in the world, Audubon’s annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC) celebrated its 113th year. |
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Green and Growing Colorado landowners weathered through 2012’s record year of heat and drought. The high temperatures we experienced along with low rainfall made 2012 the record for plant evapotranspiration demand and consequently water use. |
2012 News
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Green and Growing Colorado State Extension Agents are collaborating with corn breeders to evaluate corn fields for western corn rootworm damage this summer. |
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Green and Growing Colorado State Extension Agents are collaborating with corn breeders to evaluate corn fields for western corn rootworm damage this summer. |
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Green and Growing Colorado State Extension Agents are collaborating with corn breeders to evaluate corn fields for western corn rootworm damage this summer. |
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Green and Growing ‘Miller moth’ is the term given to any type of moth that is abundant in and around homes. |
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Green and Growing This year’s rangeland grasshopper hazard map is now out for the western United States. While grasshopper hazards are very high in western Nebraska and eastern Montana, Most of Colorado has a moderate to low potential for grasshopper hazards this year. |
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Green and Growing Custom Rates for Colorado Farms & Ranches in 2011 |
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Green and Growing People have found noticeable damage to the edges of wheat fields that are adjacent to introduced grass pastures or highway bar-ditches. |
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Green and Growing Season Starting Early: Scout for Alfalfa Weevils. |
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CSU Extension April 17, 2012 NCERA 184 Wheat Fungicide Table Pest Alert: Wheat Disease watch |
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Green and Growing March 2012 Adapted from a CSU Extension factsheet written by B. Irell & F. Peairs |
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Green and Growing March 2012 Last Sunday’s winds had an average wind speed exceeding 25 mph, with gusting winds over 60 mph in many locations in northeast Colorado. |
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Green and Growing February 2012 Colorado State University Extension to host three Private Pesticide Applicator's recertification sessions in February. |