Black cutworm moths appear to be more active than normal, says Penn State Extension, and juvenile slugs have hatched out of their eggs in no-tilled fields.
An Ohio State University Extension entomologist recommends growers start scouting for black cutworms as soon as corn emerges, checking for symptoms of above- and belowground feeding.
Source: By Chad Lee and Jim Herbek, University of Kentucky
Planting corn into sod could generate a gross return of $500 to $700 per acre, which is a large enough opportunity to consider taking old pasture or hay fields and converting them to corn for 2011.
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