Crops Bulletin
July 1, 2014 
     Issue 6      
 
 

Prepared by

Paul Kassel

Extension Field Agronomist

 

Phone: 

(712) 262-2264

Email: kassel@iastate.edu 

 

 

Serving Clay, Buena Vista, Dickinson, Emmet, Hancock, Kossuth, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Sac and Winnebago Counties

 

 

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Soybean Replant:

- Expect a 50-60 percent yield reduction with an early July planted soybean crop compared to a normal planting date.

- Actual soybean yields may to be 15 to 25 bu/a when planted in early July.

- Consider early group I varieties for planting after July 1. Later maturing varieties will work also but will be more susceptible to an early frost event.

 

Summer Forage: The following are some forage/bedding crop/cover crop options where corn or soybean acres have been lost. Steve Barnhart has more info in this ICM News article.

 

Crop                                         Dry Hay Yield, Ton/Acre

German millet, one cut                                1-2

Japanese millet, multi-cut                            1-3

Proso millet, multi-cut                                 1-3

Sudangrass, multi-cut                                 1-3

Sorghum-sudan hybrids                               2-4

Grain bearing forage sorghum            8-10 (wet silage yield)

Corn                                                 7-9 (wet silage yield)

 

Staging Soybean Development: Soybean staging is important for timing of herbicide and fungicide applications. This article has visual descriptions of soybean stages. 

 

R1 stage = one open flower at any node on the main stem.

 

R2 stage = open flower at one of the two uppermost nodes on the main stem with a fully developed leaf.

 

Potato Leafhopper: Recent weather has limited development of leafhopper populations. However, leafhoppers can increase rapidly with typical summer weather. More info is available here.

 

Growing Degree Days (GDD): The following are GDDs from April 22 to June 30.

  • NW crop reporting district - 996 (-3).
  • NC crop reporting district - 929 (-46).
  • WC crop reporting district - 996 (-10)

Dates:

Mid-season Crop Management Clinic - July 9, 2014 at the ISU FEEL lab near Boone. Pre-registration is required by July 2.

Prepared by Paul Kassel, Extension Field Agronomist

Phone: (712) 262-2264, Email: kassel@iastate.edu