Evening with a view while putting in KSU Foundation wheat increases. KS Mako is the current variety leaving the drill.

What is everyone’s go to grain sorghum hybrid for a dryland scenario in Western KS. Since 2017 or so we have gone to relatively longer season and more aggressive hybrids and have had much better performance than shorter season conservative types. Our current go to is #85Y88.

Converted corn head as always is making milo (grain sorghum) harvest great again with a late season stressed crop.

Example of an effective fall applied burndown plus effective residuals for driver weeds such as Kochia. Picture is from a corner of the field that was missed.

Did not think I would find this little guy in my backyard while raising sprinkler heads. This western bean cutworm is in the mature larval stage overwintering but would have started pupation in the next 30 days to emerge before/at corn pollination time.

Started corn harvest today. Probably one of our better fields this year as it got an extra rain. Probably little need for a grain cart and unloading on the go this year. Photo credit Patrick Weber.

Received 1 gallon of Radiate from @NutrienHoxie to try out. It will be nice to see what this product can do in a replicated plot design. Plot design will allow for Sentinel 2 satellite imagery to be used to analyze the treatments throughout the season and will end with yield.

You know it’s a dry boring cropping summer when all the pictures you get from your brother this past month is pictures of equipment that has been washed and waxed (ceramic coated) instead of crop pictures and new pioneer corn/milo hybrid remarks.

Soil NO3-N test can be affected by handling/storage. Submit samples ASAP, otherwise air-dry or place in a fridge at 40F or less. Bryan Rutter @SoilFertilityKS shows what happens if samples stay in the truck cargo box for 2 weeks: almost 100 lbs N error! https://t.co/Aashi8sjmW

The wonderful joys of sugarcane aphids have arrived at Ashland Bottoms on the KSU research farm. @KStateAgron

Congratulations to the #KSUweedteam @KStateAgron for a great showing 2nd place graduate team and @tyler_paige_me 1st weed ID. Thanks @NCWeedScience for a wonderful day!!

It will be interesting to see how corn and milo compare in NW KS this year. Both crops are in roughly the same field (field was split recently) with the corn (P0622AML) following milo and the milo (85Y88) following corn from last year.

I finally coded R to process Sentinel 2 satellite imagery. It create layouts for each of our fields along with a clipped GeoTIFF file. May start playing around with creating management zones with historical imagery and test if there are any benefits such as VR fert or seeding.

The capabilities of R are amazing. Getting closer to an R script that will automatically produce KSU recs for P and K fertility in a shapefile format that is compatible with most monitors. Positive criticism from @TheFarmerHayden has aided in the direction I am pushing the script

Its amazing what a $100 macro lens for a camera can do. Two spotted spider mites on a soybean leaf in the greenhouse. If you look closely you can see all the lifecycle stages of this pest. Should be useful in creating a photo collection for various pest and disease in the field.

We are looking for research sites on producer fields for this corn season in KS. Study focused on P and S; looking for areas with low soil P levels (less than 20). If you are interested or know someone, please contact groa@ksu.edu. Below are some preliminary results from 2021.

Great, North Central Soil Fertility Conference. Thank you! #soilfertily

Nothing like having stats done on a foliar product plot in corn before even leaving the field. Four reps by with and without so nothing to crazy. Thank goodness for R to do the heavy lifting with a preloaded script.

Training the next grain cart driver @JennaMaas93 is going well. Just need to figure out the leg situation. Luckily the tractor has an IVT transmission so foot petals are optional.

Could not ask for a better evening. Pulling out the second annual dryland corn population trial (hybrid= P0622AML, populations = 15,100 - 18,800 - 22,600 - 26,300, replications = 3 [wish it was more], and distance = 3/4 miles). I even have @JennaMaas93 to be the scribe.