Scout’s Honor Weekly Report: June 19-23
As always our crop scouts are excited to share their knowledge and findings from this past week and each week to come. *Every Friday during the summer we will feature their scouting reports on the blog and our social media accounts; check in to see what’s happening in our community. We look forward to seeing the changes in the agriculture world this time of year and hope that you find the information to be helpful.
Stage
The corn has moved into V6-V7 staging. Soybeans across both territories are both reaching R1, which means they are beginning to flower.
Plant Conditions
Overall plant condition is varied throughout our territories. The only thing that is consistent is insect feeding. Our more eastern/central fields are showing a lot of storm damage from hail. Our southern fields are still in need of some rain and parts of our northern territory could use some more rain as well. Besides the storm damage, insect feeding, and lack of water; both corn and soybean crops are looking great and we are not finding any diseases, disorders or deficiencies.
Insects
We have found various insects that have been feeding on both corn and soybean plants. The latest insect that has joined the destruction crew are the Japanese Beetles. These are the beetles that skeletonize the leaves, leaving only the veins. These insects can also effect corn plants around tassel and pollination. Japanese Beetle pressure is something to keep your eyes on. Fun fact, Japanese Beetles also LOVE rose bushes. Make sure you keep an eye out on your landscaping as well! Thistle Caterpillars, Bean Leaf Beetles and Grasshoppers are also being found in soybean fields.
At this time, we don’t have much insect damage to report in corn fields except Stink Bug Pressure and Blister Beetles. We have not seen too much of their damage but it is definitely something we encourage you all to keep your eyes out for!
Weeds
We are still finding water hemp throughout soybean fields. Waterhemp around the edges of the fields is starting to seed. We encourage everyone to keep a close eye on this and make sure that you don’t get a late spread of water hemp growing in your crop fields. The other weeds that we have noticed a lot of is Wild Parsnip in waterways and ditches. If it is not in the fields, we are happy with this. Just be sure not to touch it. The last weed that we have been seeing is a lot of thistles. The thistles are getting big in size and are starting to bloom.
Fun Facts
Water pants are not dog resistant!
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