CROP NOTES for April 8, 2008
 
Iowa State University Extension Information for Northeast Iowa
By Brian Lang, ISU Extension Field Agronomist
911 S. Mill Street, Decorah, IA 52101
563-382-2949

In an attempt to speed the email transmission of Crop Notes to you, especially when I have attachments, from now on I will send you this type of message (Date and Table of Contents) whenever Crop Notes is updated, and include a web link to take you to the completed Crop Notes information and attachments.  This link is:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/winneshiek/info/crops.htm

Please let me know if  you have any problems with this method of receiving Crop Notes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Weather
     Comments from Elwynn Taylor
     Soil Temperatures
Alfalfa
     Stand Evaluations
ICM News
     New Newsletter, New Web Site
Insect Update
     Common Stalk Borer - Consider Option 1 Now.
     Black Cutworm - Traps in Place
Soybeans
     New Management Fact Sheets Available
     Rhizobia Inoculants
Grazing
     The 2008 Pasture-Walk Schedule is Now Available
Events
     April 23, Pasture-Walk Grazing Field Day, Dorchester
     May 7, Pasture-Walk Grazing Field Day, Waukon
     May 21, Pasture-Walk Grazing Field Day, Calmar
     June 10, No-till Field Day, Northeast Iowa Location
     June 11-12, The 4-State Dairy Nutrition & Management Seminar, Dubuque
     June 13, Ag Professional Tour, Nashua
     June 25, Pasture-Walk Grazing Field Day, Maynard
     June 25-26, The 2008 Hay Expo, Ossian.

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Brian J. Lang
Iowa State University Extension Crop Specialist
Winneshiek County Extension Office
911 S. Mill St., Decorah, IA 52101
Phone: 319-382-2949, Fax: 319-382-2940
bjlang@iastate.edu

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