Colby Spring Field Day set for June 11 in Kansas
Colby Kansas Colby Branch Experiment Station will host a Spring Field Day on Wednesday June 11. Registration starts at 1 p.m. with field tours at 1 30 p.m. Scientists from the experiment station and Cooperative Extension Service will lead discussions on double cropping varietal performance hybrid wheat irrigation efficiency and related topics. Contact Larry Robertson for details.
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Colby
Larry Robertson
Experiment Station
Cooperative Extension Service
Crops and Chemicals Suffer From Rain Shortfall
Franklin County Agricultural Agent Bob Bosworth reported Wednesday that area crops fail to thrive due to moisture shortage. Some farmers replant while others abandon plants, weeds rise as herbicides fail, and fields require cultivation amid cool weather helping little.
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Bob Bosworth
Franklin County
Kansas Farmers Face Poor Conditions Across Plains
In depth notes from Bosworth describe cool nights limiting insect growth and dry conditions increasing insecticide inefficacy. Wheat yields look weak as heads are small while moisture is needed to fill grain. Rainfall favored Kansas near the Oklahoma border but further north and west remains dry with cattle being sold off. Crop reports show 75 percent of wheat headed in east central Kansas, 98 percent of corn planted, 25 percent soybeans, 35 sorghum planted, and 45 percent of first alfalfa cut. Farm fuel supplies are below adequate.
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Bosworth
Kansas
Oklahoma
Canada
Kansas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Alfalfa Problems and Borers Hit Trees This Season
Alfalfa fields show slow greening due to soil moisture cold nights and possible cutworms and alfalfa weevil. Weevil larvae over five per crown slow regrowth while weevil declines as pupae form. Lilac, peach tree and other borers emerge, with eggs laid on trunks. control by trunk sprays of lindane or thiodane starting May 20 and every three weeks through mid August, avoiding fruit. Cucumber beetles spread bacterial wilt in cucurbits. spray or dust with Sevin Malathion methoxychlor or rotenone as plants emerge, repeating every five days.
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Robert W. Bosworth
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