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A much cooler week is in store compared to last week, with a good chance of a 1-2 inch rainfall event for upstate NY from late Sunday through Tuesday.  After today’s rain, clear skies will reappear later Friday and particularly Saturday.   This will lead to a widespread frost for much of  northern and central NY Saturday morning. 

Forage double cropping can be a beneficial practice for dairy farmers in the northeastern United States, providing an additional, harvestable crop plus many environmental benefits.

Last week temperatures ranged from near normal to 8 degrees above normal. Precipitation has ranged from a trace to 2 inches. Base 50 growing degree-days ranged from 30 to 110.

Richard Ball, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets commissioner, was presented the Friend of Extension Award by Cornell Cooperative Extension at a ceremony Sept. 26 at Cornell’s Statler Hotel.

Contents
1 View from the Field
1.1  Western Bean Cutworm
1.2 Regional Reports
2  Weather Outlook –September 12, 2019
3 Planting Winter Small Grains? What are the Pest Concerns?
4 Western Bean Cutworm Trap Numbers

Larry Smart, professor in the Horticulture Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science, recently joined Cornell Cooperative Extension’s “Extension Out Loud” podcast series to discuss industrial hemp production in New York state.

Last week temperatures were near normal to 6 degrees below normal. Precipitation has ranged from a trace to 2 inches. Base 50 growing degree-days ranged from 20 to 100. Above-normal temperatures this week!

Volume 18, Number 18
 
Contents
1 View from the Field
1.1 Regional Reports:
1.2 House Flies in Dairy Barns
2 Weather Outlook – September 13, 2019
3 Yellow Foxtail in Hayfields
4 Western Bean Cutworm Moth Monitoring Ends for the Season 9.3.19
5 Clipboard Checklist

Volume 18  Number 17
Contents
1 View from the Field
2 Weather Outlook – August 22, 2019
3 Unfamiliar Foliar Lesions on Your Corn???  It Could Be Southern Corn Leaf Blight.
4 Western Bean Cutworm (WBC) Update 8.28.19
5 Clipboard Checklist

Last week temperatures were near normal to 4 degrees below normal. Precipitation has ranged from a trace to 3 inches. Base 50 growing degree-days ranged from 50 to 130.

A pretty tranquil week is in store for New York.  Temperatures will be very close to normal and there will be little if any rainfall through late Tuesday at the earliest.  Daytime high temperatures will be mainly in the 70s to low 80s at best through Tuesday and a bit warmer on Wednesday (low- mid 80s).

Contents
1 View from the Field
1.1 Western bean cutworm
1.2 Other Pest Issues
2 Weather Outlook – August 15, 2019
3 Planting Winter Small Grains? What are the Pest Issues?
4 Western Bean Cutworm Data: 8/20/19
5 Clipboard Checklist

Last week temperatures ranged within 2 degrees of normal. Precipitation has ranged from a quarter inch to 3 inches. Base 50 growing degree-days ranged from 80 to 160.

1 View from the Field
1.1 White Mold in Soybeans  (Sclerotinia sclerotiorum)
1.2 Western Bean Cutworm (Striacosta albicosta)
1.3 Potato Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae)
1.4 Fusarium Head Blight (Fusarium graminearum and other species)
1.5 Other Reports of Pest Issues
2 Weather Outlook – August 8, 2019
3 More Pokeweed than Usual?
4 Western Bean Cutworm Data
5 Clipboard Checklist

The full version of What’s Cropping Up? Volume 29 No. 2 is available as a downloadable PDF and on issuu. Individual articles are also available on the What's Cropping Up? blog.

Last week temperatures ranged within 2 degrees of normal. Precipitation has ranged from a hundredth of an inch to near 3 inches. Base 50 growing degree-days ranged from 70 to 170.

Cornell University, with support from Sustainable, Agriculture, Research, and Education (SARE), is conducting a survey for all fruit, vegetable, field crop, grain, and mixed crop-livestock producers in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Vermont to identify the biggest challenges that farmers face, as well as the best solutions in regards to cover crop incentive programs. You do not need to have experience with cover crops to participate.

Volume 18, Number 14
Contents
1 View from the Field
1.1 Potato Leafhopper (Empoasca fabae)
1.2 Gray Leafspot (Cercospora zeae-maydis)
1.3 Western Bean Cutworm (Striacosta albicosta)
1.4 Stable Fly Traps Dairy Demonstration Data
2 Weather Outlook – August 2, 2018
3 Roundup Resistant Waterhemp Trial
4  Western Bean Cutworm Data (8/7/10)
5 Clipboard Checklist

Join Kirk and Kathie Arnold at Twin Oaks Dairy on August 14th from 10:00-2:00 and learn about alternative summer forages, mixed intercropping, interseeding into corn, and double cropping with triticale and sorghum sudangrass.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., on Aug. 2 announced $500,000 in funding for the USDA establish the first industrial hemp seed bank in the U.S., co-located at Cornell AgriTech, which will be used to breed and study new hemp cultivars.