What is Annual Forage Insurance?
Annual Forage (AF) insurance is a rainfall index product similar to Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance (PRF). Alfalfa and perennial range can be insured under PRF. If you grow annual crops for forage (this includes annual crops used for grazing, haying, grazing/haying, grain/grazing, green chop, grazing/green chop, or silage), AF can be used to help insure against reduced forage yield due to less precipitation than normal during the producer-selected growing season.
To read more about Annual Forage Insurance, go to:
https://eupdate.agronomy.ksu.edu/article_new/annual-forage-insurance-update-and-examples-498
Plant Analysis for testing nutrient levels in Corn
Plant analysis is an excellent diagnostic tool to help understand some of the variation among corn plants in the field. This testing can also be used for general monitoring or quality control purposes. There are different guidelines for tissue collection depending on how you plan to use the test results. For more details.
Herbicide applications and high temperatures
Summer temperatures have arrived in Kansas. If you are planning herbicide applications, here are some things to consider when applying herbicides during hot weather.
https://eupdate.agronomy.ksu.edu/article_new/herbicide-applications-and-high-temperatures-499-2
We are entering the time window in Kansas where corn producers should be scouting fields and assessing the need for a foliar fungicide application. Several fields in eastern and central Kansas are approaching V10-V14 development stage, with a few weeks to go until pollination.
Now is the time to be out scouting for the following fungal disease of corn:
1. Gray leaf spot
2. Southern Rust
3. Common Rust
For more details: https://eupdate.agronomy.ksu.edu/article_new/fungicide-considerations-for-corn-diseases-in-2022-500-2