Western Society of Crop Science meeting, June 16-17 2015, Logan Utah

Western Society of Crop Science meeting venue - Sam Skaggs Family Equine Education Center, Logan Utah.

 

American West Heritage Center, Logan Utah

 American West Heritage Center, Logan Utah

American West Heritage Center, Logan Utah

 

Olga Walsh, UI Cropping Systems Agronomist and Extension Specialist presenting preliminary research results of two projects: 1) "Evaluation of Seed Coating Treatments in Soft White Winter Wheat", and 2) "Identifying and Distinguishing Between Nitrogen  and Water Stress".

Teryl Roper, Western SARE Regional Director, presenting an overview of Western SARE programs.

Earl Creech, 2016-2018 WSCS President, and 2015 meeting host highlighting Utah crop production challenges and achievements.

Chengci Chen, past WSCS President, presents results from a camellina study carried out in Montana.

 Stephen Machado presenting Oregon State University  research results.

 2015 WSCS business meeting. 

QTL Analysis of Snow Mold Resistance in Soft White Winter Wheat Cultivar 'eltan'. Erika Kruse, Washington State University. Congratulations, to Erica for an excellent presentation and for achieving the 1st place in the 2015 WSCS student presentation competition!

 

 

 

Precision Ag Surveys: 2015 vs 2013

By: Dr. Bruce Erickson, David Widmar | June 1, 2015

When planning for the 2015 Preci­sion Agriculture Dealer Survey, it became clear that huge leaps had been made in the industry since the previous survey. Just since 2013 exponential changes had occurred and resulted in whole segments, previously not considered in the survey, coming to the forefront of agriculture’s attention. The two most obvious were unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and Big Data. In planning for the survey, it was quite surprising how much change had happened over two years.

 

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***2013***

 

 

 

 

 

Precision Nutrient Management - Idaho Grain Magazine - Summer 2015

Spotted Wing Drosophila alert for Treasure Valley tree fruit growers, by Jim Barbour

Seed Coating Treatments in Wheat - Preliminary Data presented at 2015 Western Crop Science Society Meeting.

Identifying and distinguishing between nitrogen and water stress - Preliminary Data presented at 2015 Western Crop Science Society Meeting

2015 Western Crop Science Society Meeting, Logan Utah - June 16-17, 2015

Barley Yellow Dwarf Forum - July 1, 2015!

Nutrient Digest - Nutrient Nutrient Management Newsletter - Summer 2015

Two U.S. states have officially recognized the importance of soils.

Saluting to Main and West Virginia for officially recognizing the importance of soils for their future prosperity!

Precision Ag Field Day - July 8, 2015!

Idaho Crops & Soils News, newsletter - issue 5

Wheat Disease Update

 Update from Juliet Marshall, UI Cereal Cropping Systems Agronomist and Pathologist.

Spring and Winter Wheat

1) Stripe rust 

Stripe rust is being reported from a widespread area, including northern Utah, western Idaho, southern Idaho (Twin Falls and Burley / Rupert area) and now eastern Idaho (Newdale and Blackfoot).

All reports so far have been in Brundage soft white winter wheat.

Brundage is very susceptible. If you have not be applying fungicides to this variety up to now, I would consider it infected and treat with a triazole fungicide which has some curative activity.

Strobilurin products may have reduced efficacy on stripe rust if the plants are already infected.

The Pre-Harvest Interval (PHI) has been reached in some winter wheat production at which time it is too late to apply fungicides. Always follow label directions.

Spray appropriate fungicides on susceptible spring wheat varieties at herbicide application.  

2) Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus

Barley yellow dwarf symptoms are re-occurring in infected fields. Expect to see flag leaves with the typical yellow and red “flags”. For more information, see http://www.uidaho.edu/extension/cereals/scseidaho and click on publications to download the BYD bulletin published by the UI. The heavy rains have really helped to mitigate the damage.

3) Russian Wheat Aphids

Russian Wheat Aphids are damaging wheat in several areas - look for white (bleached) stripes on tightly curled leaves, and trapped heads which appear similar to frost damaged heads. We are seeing frost damage (which is the likely cause in the picture below) and RWA damage in wheat. RWA will colonize both wheat and barley.

County Fair Dates, 2015, Idaho

Parma R&E Wheat and Barley Field Day - June 25!