Andy's scouting notes from 7/27/04

Beans –

Matts – early pod fill – delayed vs. Saylors due to hail..  10 days behind saylors.  Hail cost us 10 bushel as a guess.  

Saylors – 3302’s on tilled ground looks good. 

Mcdaniel – 93M60’s 3-4 days later than tilled ground on Saylors..  more pod development still occurring.

Corn

Matts – P12 three weeks from 30%  still fair amount of hail damage – maybe 10 bushel.  IF MATT’S MAKES 140 THERE IS LOTS BETTER CORN ELSEWHERE!

Saylors – Milk to early dough looks good, no disease pressure… Saylor’s is closer realitve to Matt’s than it looks.  Some nitrogen deficiency on corn…

R78 slower relative dry down due M93 and B51

Mckims – Corn – milk to early dough – same maturity as Livengood.  Little bit of Southern Rust.  About the same as Saylors…  32H58 on edges looks VERY GOOD.

Livengood  -- R79 Early Dent, R78 was Milk-Early Dough – A13 is lot further behind.  A13 has more gray leaf spot than other two.

Kruses  -- P17 was mid dent – M93 was early to mid dough – North end of the farm looks significantly better than south.  Southern Rust at Kruses – same at darins.

Darin   -- 668 gray leaf worst at my place compared to any other fields.  Not critical yet.  Little southern rust – 1-2 per plant at least.  Soybean stubble looks WAY better than corn on corn, 20 bushel at least.   Severe rootworm silk feeding on corn on corn.  To the line!!!

2004 should be a good year to compare BT vs non BT under light corn borer pressure

Southern rust appears worse as we go south of Dad’s.

Issues after today

Nemaha country STRAHMS – K77 VS. P12

Corn on corn at dad’s – rootworm pressure