The Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) is monitoring complaints related to the herbicide ingredient dicamba, but the number of complaints in Kentucky is a fraction of the numbers in other states.
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Southwestern corn borer (SWCB) (Diatraea grandiosella) was a caterpillar regarded as one of the most serious insect pests of corn in the late 1970s.
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Although the sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) was not a serious problem in Texas, Kansas, or other states in 2017; its occurrence in Kentucky appears to be problematic due to the high numbers being observed in sweet and forage sorghum in Fayette, Logan, Lyon, and Caldwell counties during the last part of July and August in 2017.
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Farmers use cover crops to control soil erosion, but they may have additional benefits to the soil and subsequent crops. A group of university researchers, including two scientists from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, are seeking to find and quantify these additional benefits.
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There are many factors to consider when deciding to transfer your farm business to the next generation. Open communication between the generations is a key is successfully navigating the farm transition process.
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Class XI of the Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program recently returned from an agricultural study tour of Austria, Slovakia, Poland, and the Czech Republic. These countries are approaching nearly thirty years of transition from a centrally planned economy under communist control to a capitalistic market-based economy.
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It’s the time of the year in which symptoms of some foliar soybean diseases are becoming apparent. Variety susceptibility, field history, and weather conditions all play a role in the incidence and severity of foliar diseases of soybean, so scouting is important.
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It often surprises people to learn that GE commonly causes less disruption to plants than conventional techniques of breeding. But equally profound is the realization that the latest GE techniques, coupled with a rapidly expanding ability to analyze massive amounts of genetic material, allow us to make super-modest changes in crop plant genes that will enable farmers to produce more food with fewer adverse environmental impacts.
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July issue of the UK Crops Marketing and Management Update from Dr. Todd Davis.
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UK welcomes its newest weed science specialist.
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Dr. Kiersten Wise is the Department of Plant Pathology’s newest addition to the faculty
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Southern rust of corn, caused by the fungus Puccinia polysora, was confirmed by the University of Kentucky Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (PDDL) this week on samples from Caldwell County and Graves County.
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On July 1, 2017, Susan Fox, Lyon County Extension agent, found a kudzu bug (Megacopta cribaria) while walking on a bike trail in the Lyon County section of The Land Between The Lakes. Later, on July 5th, more specimens were found in a site near the city of Eddyville in the same county.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its July Crop Production report today based on the Agricultural Yield survey conducted at the beginning of the month.
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A new system known as the “Integrated Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education,” iPiPE for short, is now being used to track southern rust of corn in the U.S.
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Plans to construct the Grain and Forage Center of Excellence are full steam ahead a year after the University of Kentucky received a $15 million grant from the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board and land purchase assistance from KyCorn. The university will lease the 294 acres of highly-productive land adjacent to the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton from KyCorn to conduct large-scale field trials.
Energy assessments were conducted on 79 farms and provided an estimated benefit of $727,200 in annual energy savings per year for all producers, or an average of $9,205 per farm in annual savings per producer.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the Acreage and Grain Stocks reports today, showing soybean planted acreage is a record high.
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