Survey for County Crops Day – on the radio! University of Minnesota Extension, KDHL Radio, and KRFO Radio hosted the annual Rice and Steele County Crops Day program on the radio this year! Thank you for tuning in on Tuesday, February 23, Thursday, February 25, and/or Friday, February 26, 2021. Tuesday’s program featured weed updates. Mike Cruse and David Nicolai, Extension Educators, focused on updates regarding Palmer amaranth, a noxious weed on the Minnesota Department of Ag’s eradicate list. Thursday featured crop diseases, focusing on corn tar spot. Dean Malvick, Extension Plant Pathologist, talked about this disease that was recently found in Minnesota in 2019. Locally, tar spot of corn was also confirmed in several fields in 2020.