University Minnesota Extension has conducted a small grains pest and disease survey for more than a decade as part of a wider small grains and wheat IPM survey in collaboration with North Dakota State University. This effort has been funded by the Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council and your check-off dollars to inform producers and the research community of the presence of disease and pest problems (Fig. 1), which is a first step to effective and timely management.
Rather than relying on random fields to sample for insects and diseases, we plan to visit only small grains fields that you have volunteered, and we have written permission to scout. If you would like to volunteer a field.
The form will ask for your name, the latitude and longitude of the field in decimal degrees, the previous crop in that particular field, and asks whether you agree to grant the University of Minnesota Extension permission to enter the field.
We typically have three scouts scouting fields weekly centered around Crookston, Moorhead, and Morris so we can cover a continuous range of fields through the northwest and west-central areas of the state (Fig. 2). At the time of this article, we still have an open summer scout position for Morris open until May 17 if you know of anyone that may be interested. These scouts also assist with soybean pest scouting funded by the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council and soybean checkoff dollars.
Source: umn.edu
Photo Credit: istock-Rustic
Categories: Minnesota, Crops, Soybeans, Wheat