During the 2023 growing season, U of MN Extension IPM workers have been scouting wheat and soybean fields for pests in northwest and west-central Minnesota. As we move into August, scouts are wrapping up wheat sampling for wheat head diseases, and will continue to scout through mid-August for soybean insects, especially soybean aphid.
This Western IPM Pest Survey continued this year with support by the Minnesota Soybean Research and Promotion Council (MSRPC) and Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council. Weekly maps are produced jointly with NDSU to show growth staging and pest pressure and to help alert growers when they should be scouting their fields for pests. Usually, three scouts are hired based out of Crookston, Moorhead, and Morris to cover the majority of the western half of the state. Unfortunately, we could not find someone to fill the Morris position this year, so while the maps in this article do not show fields for southwestern Minnesota, do not assume there are not pest issues in that part of the state.
Source: umn.edu
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Categories: Minnesota, Crops