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Seed Corn, Proso, Dry Bean Harvests Start

Temperatures averaged near normal and rain was confined to the eastern half of the state, according to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service report for the week ending Sept. 13.  Silage cutting was active in a number of areas. Seed corn harvest had just begun and the first fields of high moisture corn were being taken. Last irrigation activities were underway. Winter wheat seeding was progressing in western counties, as was dry bean and millet harvests. Topsoil moisture supplies rated 7% very short, 29% short, 61% adequate, and 3% surplus. Subsoil moisture supplies rated 6% very short, 26% short, 66% adequate, and 2% surplus.

USDA: Nebraska crop conditions Sept.13, 2015

Source:unl.edu


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White rot, also known as sclerotinia, is a common agricultural fungal disease caused by various virulent species of Sclerotinia. It initially affects the root system (mycelium) before spreading to the aerial parts through the dissemination of spores.

Sclerotinia is undoubtedly a disease of major economic importance, and very damaging in the event of a heavy attack.

All these attacks come from the primary inoculum stored in the soil: sclerotia. These forms of resistance can survive in the soil for over 10 years, maintaining constant contamination of susceptible host crops, causing symptoms on the crop and replenishing the soil inoculum with new sclerotia.