Crop producers and agricultural professionals face a host of challenges, including pests and pest resistance concerns, agronomic issues, and soil fertility questions. The Strategic Farming program will address your crop-related concerns in a weekly, research-based webinar with specialists in the field.
Field Notes 2024
Field Notes features a live, interactive webinar with crop specialists addressing in-season issues as they arise. The series begins May 8 and continues through August on Wednesdays from 8 to 8:30 a.m.
Crop producers and other ag professionals are invited to join us for timely topics including weather, insect and disease issues, soil fertility concerns, agronomics, and more.
You need to register only once to attend any or all webinars.
Can’t make the live session? No problem. Each session will be recorded and available on the Strategic Farming: Field Notes podcast.
Strategic Farming: Field Notes podcast
Field Notes is an interactive, discussion-based podcast for farmers and agricultural professionals recorded during the growing season to address crop-related concerns. Listen at your convenience.
Strategic farming 2024: Let’s talk crops webinars
Let’s Talk Crops webinars feature interactive discussions addressing the latest research on crop production issues. The series runs from January through March.
Watch the recordings from the 2024 series.
Frayne Olson, crop economist and marketing specialist at North Dakota State University discusses the impact of corn, soybean, and wheat ending stocks, South American crops, and export demand on grain price outlooks.
A big data approach that integrates environmental, genetic and plant phenotypic data can be used to help solve key problems for producers, exporters and food manufacturers. Learn how studies on kernel integrity and factors affecting food quality help corn farmers in Minnesota and beyond with UMN agronomy professor Candice Hirsch and Tom Hoverstad, a researcher at the Southern Research and Outreach Center.
Green stems and uneven maturity can cause soybean harvest headaches. Join Seth Naeve, Extension soybean agronomist, and visiting scientist Anibal Cerrudo as they share the latest research regarding planting dates and pre-harvest aides, especially when pushing soybean maturity to the max.
You start by selecting the right product for your weed management situation, but what else should you consider to help ensure a successful application? Join Tommy Butts, University of Arkansas Extension weed scientist, and Tom Hoverstad, researcher at the Southern Research and Outreach Center, as they discuss herbicide product choices, nozzle selection and spray coverage, and other strategies to optimize herbicide performance.
Adjuvants, including nonionic surfactants, crop oil concentrates, methylated seed oils, buffering agents, antifoam agents, drift control agents, and fertilizers are used to enhance herbicide activity and applications. Join Joe Ikley, Extension weed specialist, North Dakota State University, and Greg Dahl, adjuvant development advisor, to better understand why we use adjuvants, how they work, and whether or not they are interchangeable (and the impacts of doing so).
There are multiple options marketed for managing soybean insects, like soybean aphid, but not all options necessarily give a good return on investment. Bob Koch, Extension soybean entomologist, discusses the latest management strategies for soybean aphid, soybean gall midge, soybean tentiform leafminer, and cloverworm.
Watch What pays for soybean insect pest management?
As we emerge from another season of drought, what have we learned about the impacts of a cover crop on moisture status in the field and impacts on our cash crop? State soil health specialist Anna Cates and Dan Smith, nutrient and pest management outreach specialist at the University of Wisconsin, discuss their recommendations for shifts in strategies based on field moisture status and the forecast.
Dan Kaiser, Extension nutrient management specialist, and Jeff Vetsch, researcher at the Southern Research and Outreach Center (SROC), take a look at the recently updated fertilizer guidelines and discuss how to get the biggest bang for your buck when making fertilizer decisions. Topics include early fertilizer applications, variable rate technology, and soil nitrate tests.
Fei Yang, Extension corn entomologist, describes the current challenges in managing corn rootworm due to its extended diapause and ability to break resistance traits. He also urges producers and consultants to watch for European corn borer issues, since it has been overcoming Bt traits in neighboring Canada.
Not every fungicide works well to protect corn or soybean crops against all of the fungal pathogens that can reduce yield. Kiersten Wise, professor and Extension plant pathologist from the University of Kentucky, describes how applied research in the region is used to generate fungicide efficacy ratings.
Over recent years soybean and corn diseases typically observed further south, such as frogeye leaf spot, charcoal rot, and tar spot, have arrived in Minnesota. Dean Malvick, Extension plant pathologist, talks about these diseases and how to identify and manage them.