November 2024 | Volume 15, Issue 8
Inside this Issue:
- 2025 Custom Farming Rate Survey
- Winter Crop Production Meetings
- Slug Damage Survey
- Scholarship & CDL Grant Live - Maryland Grain Producers
- Assessing Herbicide Tank Mixes for Postemergence Weed Control in Soybean
- Population Dynamics of Stink Bugs Within Cover Crops on the Eastern Shore of Maryland
- Corn and Soybean Variety Trials
- UMD-TAPS: A New Kind of Farmer Participatory Research and Field Day
- Growing Giant Miscanthus on Marginal Land
- Evaluation of Early Maturity Group Soybeans in Maryland
- Using NDVI to Determine Nitrogen Needs
- Grid Sampling Soils for Variable Rate Lime Applications
- Ag Tech Conference
- Pesticide Certification Dates
- Nutrient Management Voucher and Training Dates
- Storing Mycotoxin-Affected Grain
- Are you a Reporting Company Under the New Corporate Transparency Act?
- University of Maryland Agriculture & Food Systems Faculty Directory
- Weather Outlook
- Regional Crop Reports
Slug Damage Survey
The Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board is conducting a Slug Damage Survey to better understand the scope of slug damage experienced in the 2024 growing season and inform our research priorities moving forward. Please take the time to full out this survey to help our research be as impactful as possible.
2024 Corn and Soybean Variety Trials Results Are In!
Nicole Fiorellino, Assistant Professor & Extension Agronomist, University of Maryland, College Park
With the dry conditions this year, the Agronomy program has progressed through harvest rapidly and both the corn and soybean variety trials results are available for download online at https://psla.umd.edu/extension/md-crops/ or click the links below. The fee-based performance trials are critical to provide Maryland farmers with unbiased yield performance data across the broad geographic diversity of Maryland. The relative yield tables in both of these reports are extremely valuable for farmers to select varieties that perform well across the state. The varieties with relative yield greater than 100, meaning above the average yield at that location, across all the test locations are highlighted in these tables and would be considered resilient varieties that are likely to yield well in different conditions. For more information on interpreting variety trials results, see the UMD Factsheet authored by Andy Kness and Nicole Fiorellino at this link https://go.umd.edu/interpretingtrials. We are grateful for the continued funding provided by Maryland Grain Producers Utilization Board and Maryland Soybean Board for these variety trials.
Corn Trials Soybean Trials
Events
Event: Mid-Atlantic Grazing Conference
Date: December 16-18, 2024
Location: Washington County Ag Center MD (In-person and virtual options)
Description: Featuring keynote speaker BurkeTecichert, farm tours, and more!
Registration: https://go.umd.edu/midatlanticgrazing
Scholarships
2024 Mid-Atlantic Certified Crop Advisors Scholarship
Key details:
- Eligibility Criteria: High school seniors and undergraduate students interested in agriculture, with preference given to agronomy, plant science, or crop science are encouraged to apply.
- Email applications form by January 31, 2025.
For more information go to www.MidAtlanticCCA.org
Download Agronomy News, November 2024, Vol. 15, Issue 8 (pdf)
Agronomy News is a statewide newsletter for farmers, consultants, researchers, and educators interested in grain and row crop forage production systems. This newsletter is published by the University of Maryland Extension, Agriculture & Food Systems Agronomy Team every month during the growing season and will include topics pertinent to agronomic crop production. The subscription is free.
New Extension Ruminant Specialist
Please join us in welcoming Dr. Brittany Fletcher to the University of Maryland Extension Team. Brittany is the new Ruminant Livestock Specialist at the University of Maryland's Western Maryland Research & Education Center. Brittany brings a rich background in livestock management, having grown up on a small farm in Lineboro, Maryland, where she and her family raised cattle, sheep, and hogs. Brittany earned her M.S. in feedlot cattle nutrition from Oklahoma State University in 2021, where her research focused on trace mineral supplementation strategies. In 2024, she completed her Ph.D. at Oklahoma State University, specializing in ruminant nutrition with a focus on managing woody plant encroachment in the Great Plains through mixed-species grazing of cattle and goats. As part of her role, Brittany will develop Extension programming and conduct applied research for small ruminants, beef, and dairy cattle across the state. Brittany can be reached at bfletch1@umd.edu or (301) 226-7576.