Read the latest news from the UK Wheat Science Group. This newsletter includes articles on wheat variety selection, residual herbicides, wheat management using historical climate data, and other useful resources.
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Fertilizer applications can influence the overall yield and profit of crop production systems. Phosphorus (P), potassium (K), and lime additions for winter wheat production should be based on a good soil sampling and testing protocol. A soil test is recommended every two years or less, depending on the crop rotation and individual field knowledge.
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The Kentucky Small Grain Growers and Walnut Grove Farms are proud to announce the recipients of the Don Halcomb Memorial Scholarships for Community Leadership Through Agriculture, Mattie Mink and Ethan Robey.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released the July Crop Production report today, showing the yield forecast for Kentucky wheat was 63 bushels per acre, down 13 bushels from last year.
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It has been about eight days since the May8/9 freeze occurred. This is about the minimal time needed to begin seeing initial freeze damage. At this point, a fairly accurate assessment of damage should be able to be made, but as days progress the damage will become much more evident.
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The Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association is proud to announce the availability of the Don Halcomb Memorial Scholarship for Community Leadership through Agriculture for the 2020/2021 school year.
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Some of the early-planted wheat and even some wheat planted ‘on time’ within the first two to three weeks of October is beginning to head. This is quite concerning given how early in the spring it is.
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This spring, grain producers across the Midwest, including those in pockets of Kentucky, are dealing with grain quality issues in storage bins that are causing problems during unloading.
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The University of Kentucky’s IPM Training School is scheduled for March 12 at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton.
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Winners of the 2019 Kentucky Wheat Yield Contest were honored January 16, 2020 during the Kentucky Commodity Conference.
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In 2017 two separate populations of Italian ryegrass from Kentucky were submitted to the University of Kentucky weed science program for screening of herbicide resistance. The two populations were screened for resistance in greenhouses at the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center in Princeton in the winter of 2017-2018.
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Barley yellow dwarf is one of the most devastating diseases in wheat worldwide. Here, we report the absence and presence of plants infected with BYDV or CYDV in commercial wheat fields in western Kentucky.
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Commercial winter wheat seed (cv Pioneer26R1A) without and with insecticide seed treatment (Poncho® (clothianidin)) were planted into no-till research plots of the University of Kentucky’s Research and Education Center in Princeton, KY.
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Research by Tim Phillips at University of Kentucky.
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Cereal rye is planted on more acres than any other cover crop species in the U.S. because it can reliably produce substantial biomass in a wide range of growing conditions. In order to maximize these benefits, well-adapted cereal rye cultivars should be selected for rapid and complete ground cover, high biomass production, and high potential to suppress weeds.
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Corn Silk Farms of Logan County had the highest overall yield and highest No-Till Division yield in the commonwealth, achieving 126.88 bu/A using AgriMaxx 485 seed.
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Grower survey will help shape the future of wheat extension tools. The Wheat Initiative’s - Agronomy Expert Working Group is trying to better understand how knowledge mobilization and technology transfer tools can be adapted to meet regional needs in a digital world.
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As interest continues to grow in locally produced ingredients from the craft brewing industry in the mid-Atlantic and eastern U.S. finding malted barley is not easy for those located east of the Mississippi river. Therefore, the program’s main effort is breeding winter malting barley cultivars that have superior malt quality and are well adapted to the mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States.
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Annual ryegrass has been chosen as the central focus of the greenhouse and field research due its notable advantages and the compelling proof of its effectiveness. Annual ryegrass roots apparently contain exudates that have a degrading effect on the fragipan. The deep root penetration also increases soil porosity and may facilitate the leaching of the 4 or 5 other effective compounds down to the fragipan. We are presently looking for varieties of annual ryegrass that are more effective in breaking down the fragipan and varieties that are more easily killed by glyphosate.
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The overall objective of the research trials were to develop the best recommendations for managing Fusarium head blight (FHB; also known as scab) and the associated mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON; also known as vomitoxin) with foliar fungicides.
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