How to get your plant, pest problems diagnosed in Indiana
To prevent plant loss from happening again, the owner of Lick Creek Flower Company mailed a tulip sample to Purdue University's Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory.
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To prevent plant loss from happening again, the owner of Lick Creek Flower Company mailed a tulip sample to Purdue University's Plant and Pest Diagnostic Laboratory.
Course runs February through May, teaching botany, pollinators and more.
October is known as soybean cyst nematode action month because this is the best time to get out and soil sample for SCN. The end of a soybean season is when SCN levels will be at their highest in the soil. Currently, the Nebraska Soybean Board is sponsoring soybean cyst nematode sample analysis for samples from any Nebraska field.
The soybean growing season is rapidly ending and some farmers may have areas where yield expectations weren't reached. One potential explanation for these areas could be soybean cyst nematode (SCN).
In this week's column, Ned Birkey discusses frost, weather, soil testing, nematodes analysis and distribution of locally grown foods.