Taylor County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019





1071 - Grain Crops
1071.1) 9

Number of producers  who plan to utilize IPM practices for grain crops production as recommended by Extension

1071.2) 0

Number of producers who utilized IPM practices for grain crops production as recommended by Extension

1071.3) 15

Number of producers  planning to adopt the usage of new technology for crop production

1071.4) 0

Number of producers who adopted the usage of new technology for crop production

1071.5) 21

Number of producers who plan to use diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and/or weeds

1071.6) 0

Number of producers who used diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and/or weeds

1071.7) 35

Number of producers who plan to adopt one or more fertility management recommendations

1071.8) 0

Number of producers who adopted one or more fertility management recommendations

1071.9) 0

Number of producers who plan to implement on-farm trials

1071.10) 3

Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials

1071.11) 13

Number of producers adopting grain crop production practices that improve environmental/water quality



Success Stories

Waterhemp Research Trial

Author: Patrick Hardesty

Major Program: Grain Crops

After glyphosate was introduced in the mid 1970’s, it was used primarily as a burndown herbicide in corn and soybeans.  Since the introduction of Roundup Ready crops in 1996, glyphosate has been used widely for burndown and in-crop weed control with the increase in use and many dropping pre-emerge herbicides from their weed control program weeds have become resistant.  Two weeds, palmer amaranth and waterhemp, were identified as resistant in 2005.   These pigweeds are very a

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