Agents
This site is dedicated to helping County ANR Extension Agents with their programs related to grain crops production. Questions or comments about this site can be directed to Chad Lee.
Please DO NOT link this site to any other site. This site is designed for County ANR Extension Agents, only. Thanks!
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Current Issues for Agents
- County Meetings, March 2009 or in ppx or pdf
- Daviess County Meeting, March 2009
- Corn and Wheat Grain and Silage, Tri County Crop Production Meeting, 2009, Barren County Extension Office
- Grains Updates, (includes populations, planting dates, pest management, foliar fertilizers) Breckrinridge County, 2008
- On-Farm Research: Kentuckiana, 2008
- Early Bird 2008, Fertilizers
- Early Bird 2008, Genetics
- Early Bird 2008, Disease Management
- Early Bird 2008, Insect Management
- Digital Images 101, Chad Lee 2008 (Sort of an Idiot's Guide to Digital Images) (ppt)
- Digital Consulting, Paul Bachi 2008 (ppt)
- Images - Obtain images of grain crops for use in Extension publications and presentations.
- Crop Management Journal (peer-reviewed journal for production agriculture)
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Crops: Topics for Agents
- Corn | Soybeans | Small Grains | Sorghum | Sunflower | Other Crops
- Some resources are all from other states and any recommendations from those states may or may not apply to Kentucky. Some files are available in printer-friendly PDF format. Click here for more information about PDF.
Corn
- drought concerns
- Estimating Corn Yield
- Corn Growth and Development 2005 (4,567 kb)
- Corn Growth and Development 2005, smaller file (13 kb)
- Corn Growth and Development 2005 (pdf file)
- Relationship between corn silage and corn grain yields (Univ. Wisconsin)
- Corn silage economics calculations (Univ. Wisconsin)
- Frost Damage to Silage Corn
- Silage Corn - Drought Stress
- Corn Yield Estimator
- Harvest Options for Flooded Corn (pdf | doc)
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Soybeans
- Estimating soybean yield
- 2004 Soybean Contest Memo to Agents
- 2004 Soybean Contest (pdf | word)
- 2004 Soybean Oil & Protein Concentration Program (pdf)
- soybean rust
- soybean rust diagnosis sheet (438 kb PDF)
- Soybean: K deficiency in Pulaski County
- Harvest Options for Flooded Soybean (pdf | doc)
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Small Grains
Oats
Rye
Sorghum
Sunflower
- Sunflower Production (Ohio State)
- Sunflower Production (Kansas State) - pdf
- Sunflower Production (Nebraska)
- Sunflower Variety Trials (Kansas State)
- Sunflower Variety Trial (Georgia) - 2000 data, scroll down to the sunflower section
- Sunflower insect management (Kansas State)
- Sunflower weed control guide (Nebraska 2004) - 1,426 kb pdf, see page 68 (listed as page 64 of the document, but page 68 of the pdf)
- Sunflower disease control (North Dakota)
- Sunflower Harvest (Kansas State) pdf
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Other Crops
Flax
- Flax Production - Montana
- Flax Production - North Dakota
- Flax Variety Selection - North Dakota
- Flax Guide - Flax Council in Canada
- Flax - Historical Production
Switchgrass
- Switchgrass - Alternative Energy Crop (website)
- Switchgrass - hay guide - Nebraska
- Switchgrass - production for biofuels - Iowa (pdf)
- Switchgrass - production - Purdue
- Switchgrass - forage - Missouri
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County Research Projects
- Fertilizing Rented and Owned Land
- Fertilizing Rented and Owned Land Data Sheet (MS Word) (pdf)
- On-Farm Demonstrations (pdf)
- Research Randomizer A great tool for help with randomizing test plots.
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Field Plot Quick References
- Strip plots, adjusting yields (pdf)
- Estimating Corn Yield
- Estimating soybean yield
- On-Farm Demonstrations (pdf)
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Presentations for Agents
- Feel free to use portions of these presentations in your meetings, or just use them as a reference. If you have questions, please contact the specialist that developed the presentation.
- County Meetings, March 2009
- Daviess County Meeting, March 2009
- 2008 Early Bird Meetings
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- Early Bird 2008, Fertilizers
- Early Bird 2008, Genetics
- Early Bird 2008, Disease Management
- Early Bird 2008, Insect Management
- 2006-2007 Winter County Meetings
- Hopkins County, Soybean Populations
- LaRue County, Corn, Herbicide-Resistant Weeds, Soybeans Populations
- Montgomery County, Corn
- Rockcastle County, Corn
- Simpson County, High Yield Corn
- Taylor County, RR Corn in RR Soybeans, Herbicide Resistance
- Trigg and Christian Counties, Corn, Corn Hybrids, Soybean Populations
- Woodford County, Corn Production
- Southern States Training
- Southern States Training, 2007 Winter Meeting
- 2006 Early Management Meetings
- Crop Management: Presented by Jim Herbek and Chad Lee (ppt)
- 2006 Kentuckiana Crop Production Seminar
- Soybean Row Widths: Presentation by Chad Lee (ppt)
- Agent Training, May 18, 2006
- Agent Training, February, 2006
- County Meetings, 2005-2006
- Agent Update, December, 2005
- 2005 Agent Update: Weeds
- 2005 Agent Update: Plant Pathology
- 2005 Agent Update: Insects
- 2005 Agent Update:Corn, Soybean and Small Grains Production
- More Presentations
- Early Management Decision Meeting 2004
- Silage Corn Production 10/18/04 (7,900 kb)
- Corn Growth Stages (11,226 kb)
- Soybean Growth Stages (7,840 kb)
- CCA Training, Fall 2002 - Corn and Wheat Production
- Agronomy Update, Fall 2002 - Grain Crops
PowerPoint Presentations
(You will want to SAVE FILE TO DISK. . . do
not open from current location!)
Other Information for County Agents
- Images - Obtain images of grain crops for use in Extension publications and presentations.
- GMO Crops
- DuPont and Monsanto and Rootworm-Protected Corn (Univ. of Illinois Pest Management and Crop Development Newsletter)
- Pollen Drift Considerations for Transgenic Hybrids (Univ. of Illinois Pest Management and Crop Development Newsletter)
- What foreign markets accept biotech corn? This NCGA website help you know what biotech corn is approved oversees and where you can sell un-approved biotech corn here in the USA.
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