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2020
  • • Silage Results 2020 (PowerPoint)
  • • Enlist Update (PowerPoint)
  • • Tar Spot Q&A
  • • Freeze Injury to Corn and Silage
  • • Late Season Scouting to Plan for Harvest and Next Season
  • • Corn Stalk Rots and Managing Lodging Issues
  • • Combine Calibration for Accurate Yield Data
  • • Assessing Corn Yield Potential
  • • Harvesting Lodged and Down Corn
  • • Combine Calibration for Accurate Yield Data
  • • Adult CRW Beetle Scouting and Management
  • • Corn Grain Fill During Drought Stress
  • • Managing Early Onset of Foliar Diseases in Corn
  • • Conducting Root Digs for Corn Rootworm
  • • Air Temperature Inversion Effects on Pesticide Spray Drift
  • • Understanding Growth Regulator Herbicide Injury
  • • Phytophthora Root and Stem Rot of Soybean
  • • Gray Leaf Spot in Corn
  • • Managing Northern Corn Leaf Blight
  • • Is Early Season Frost a Threat to Your Corn?
  • • Conducting Tissue Testing in Corn
  • • Burndown Applications and Soybean Planting
  • • Anthracnose Diseases in Corn
  • • Back to the Basics for Weed Control
  • • Saving Versus Earning for Seed Corn Inputs
  • • Benefits of Scouting Fields Before Planting Corn
  • • Corn Growth Stage and Herbicide Application Postemergence
  • • Corn Replanting Decisions
  • • Early Season Drought Stress in Corn
  • • Managing PPO Resistant Weeds in Soybeans
  • • Using XtendiMax® Herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology as a Burndown for Pigweeds and Marestail in the Roundup Ready® Xtend Crop System
  • • Are Seed Treatments Effective Against the Same Insects as Below Ground Traits?
  • • Determining the Extent of Alfalfa Winter Kill
  • • Weed Management in Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® Soybeans
  • • Slug Damage in Corn
  • • Slug Damage in Soybeans
  • • Cold Temperature Damage to Emerged Corn
  • • Planter Adjustments for Corn
  • • Watch for Early Season Bean Leaf Beetles in Soybeans
  • • Common Stink Bugs in Corn
  • • Spring Sprayer Cleaning Checklist
  • • Why is My Corn Leaving Out Below Ground?
  • • Two-Pass Versus One-Pass Weed Control Programs in Corn
  • • Do I Need to Apply an Insecticide to Manage Early Season Corn Insects Such as Cutworms
  • • Post Harvest Grain Storage Management
  • • Early Season Stinkbug Management in Soybean
  • • Early Drought Stress in Soybean
  • • Managing Cover Crops Prior to Planting Corn
  • • Effect of Soil Saturation on Available Nitrogen
  • • Weed Management in Soybean Following Winter Wheat
  • • Fallow Syndrome in Corn
  • • Selecting Traits for Corn Insect Management
  • • Making Decisions Based on Weed Scouting in Corn
  • • Managing White Mold During the Post-Harvest Season
  • • Managing Flooded Soybean Fields
  • • Benefits of Scouting Fields Before Planting Corn in the North
  • • Benefits and Limitations of Late Burndown Herbicide Applications
  • • Benefits of Soybean Nodulation
  • • Effects of Flooding on Corn Emergence and Young Corn Plants
  • • Effects of Cold and Saturated Soils on Corn Germination, Emergence and Growth
  • • Corn Nutrition
  • • Ear Rots
  • • Gibberella Ear Rot
  • • Managing Stored Grain During Fluctuating Temperatures in the Late Fall and Winter
  • • Benefits and Limitations of Early Burndown Herbicide Applications
  • • Herbicide Carryover and Crop Rotation to Corn
  • • Managing Corn Diseases
  • • Factors that Promote Corn Diseases
2019
  • • Some Considerations for Winter Harvest
  • • Short Husks and Exposed Ear Tips
  • • Enlist E3™, LibertyLink® GT27™, Roundup Ready 2 Yield® and Roundup Ready 2 Xtend® – Which to Choose?
  • • The Case for SmartStax® Following Soybeans in 2020
  • • Benefits of Phosphorus for Corn Production
  • • Benefits of Nitrogen for Corn Production
  • • Selecting and Conditioning Soybean Seed
  • • How Can Cover Crops Benefit My Nutrient Management Plan?
  • • Benefits of Secondary Macronutrients for Corn Production
  • • Benefits of Potassium for Corn Production
  • • The Handy Bt Trait Table for U.S. Corn Production
  • • Identifying Common Soybean Diseases During Vegetative Growth
  • • Identification of Late Season Soybean Diseases
  • • Effects of Weather and Disease on Commercial Soybean Seed
  • • Tillage Management in Diseased Soybean Fields
  • • Late Season Corn Diseases Identification
  • • Physoderma Maydis – Brown Spot and Stalk Rot of Corn
  • • The Value of Creating a Harvest Plan for Disease-Affected Soybean Fields
  • • Mid Season Corn Disease Development
  • • Managing Soybean Disease
  • • Corn Weed Management Program Review – Post Harvest
  • • How Can Fall Tillage Help with Corn Insect Management
  • • Should I Apply Nitrogen to Break Down Corn Residue
  • • Late Season Soybean Nutrient Deficiency Identification
  • • How and When Do I Sample for Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN)?
  • • Mid Season Soybean Nutrient Deficiency
  • • Using Mid Season Tissue Testing to Enhance Stalk Quality and Disease Protection
  • • How Corn Standability Can Affect Harvest Plans
  • • How Can Harvest Help Determine Future Insect Pressure in Corn?
  • • XtendiMax® Herbicide with VaporGrip® Technology
  • • How Does Corn Disease Affect Silage Quality
  • • How Are Nematodes Impacting My Corn Crop in Season
  • • How do Fungicides Reduce Disease Pressure in Corn
  • • What You Need to Know About Aflatoxin
  • • Do Foliar Diseases Impact Corn Stalk Health
  • • Managing Volunteer Corn Throughout the Early Season
  • • Weed Management for Unplanted Acres
  • • Performing a Corn Stalk Nitrate Test
  • • In-Season White Mold Management
  • • The Importance of Correct Planter Settings
  • • Unpacking the Yield Data in the Test Plots
  • • 2019 Corn Disease Awareness
2018
  • • Tar Spot Leaf Disease of Corn
  • • Impact of Plant Death on Grain Yield of Corn
  • • Renk Makes Commitment to Digital Ag Platform
  • • Conscientious Cost Cutting
  • • Enlist™ Soybeans for 2019
2017
  • • What Happened to NemaStrike™?
  • • Don’t Forget The Sulfur In Your Fertility Program
  • • Early Planting
  • • Renk Seed’s Newest Commercial
  • • NemaStrike™ – A New Seed Treatment to Control Nematodes for Corn and Beans
  • • Put Data to Work for You
  • • The Xtend Soybean System: Our Newest Tool in Soybean Weed Management
  • • Corn Management in Flooded Fields
  • • Cold, Saturated Soil Effects on Corn Germination and Emergence
  • • Considerations on Cold and Corn Planting
  • • What is Happening with Xtend® Soybeans
  • • Big Data
  • • Interesting New Technology for Crop Improvement
2016
  • • White Mold Fungicide
  • • This Is Not Your Father’s Dicamba
  • • Interpreting Yield Results – Data Variability and Accumulation
  • • Hybrid Selection Advice
  • • Sudden Death Syndrome
  • • Managing Diplodia Stalk and Ear Rot
  • • Diplodia Stalk and Ear Rot in Corn
  • • Soybean Sudden Death Syndrome
  • • Sudden Death Syndrome Quick Facts
  • • Recommendations for Harvesting Down Corn
  • • New Tools for Better Farming
  • • Rapid Corn Plant Health Deterioration of 2015
  • • Value in Performance Trial Results
  • • Introduction to Big Data
  • • Clariva™ Seed Treatment
  • • A Growing Story
  • • Seed Supply
  • • Haylage Wins for Renk Customers
  • • Trait Changes
  • • Rapid Hybrid Turnover
  • • The Case for Forage Inoculant
  • • Corn Yields: Can They Go Higher?
  • • Alfalfa Winter Injury
  • • Are You Ready for Planting Season?
  • • SmartStax Pro is on the Horizon
  • • White Mold Refresher
  • • Chemical Giants Merge
2015
  • • Stalk Lodging
  • • Xtend™ Soybeans
  • • Rapid Corn Plant Health Deterioration of 2015
  • • Identifying Soybean Herbicide Injury
  • • Herbicide Injury in Corn
  • • Corn Leaf Diseases
  • • The Seven Wonders of the Corn Yield World
  • • Optimizing Soybean Emergence and Early Growth
  • • Early Season Insects of Corn
  • • High-Yield Corn Management
  • • Balancing Yield Goals and Input Costs
2014
  • • Molecular Markers in a Commercial Breeding Program
  • • Flooding Impacts on Corn Growth and Yield
  • • Adult Corn Rootworm Management
  • • Effect of Corn Rootworm Control and Nitrogen Rate on Corn Yield
2013
  • • Corn on Corn Challenges in 2011 for Central Illinois
2012
  • • Growth Chart for Corn
  • • Spider Mites in Soybeans
  • • Yield vs Planting Date and Population in Wisconsin
  • • Black Cutworm Management in 2012 – Iowa
  • • Soil Management for High-Residue Fields this Spring
  • • Insect Resistance Management in Corn
  • • Genetically Engineered Crops: Environmental Impacts 1996-2009
2011
  • • Votivo on Soybeans
  • • Corn Seed Supply
  • • Watch Those Soil K Levels for Maximizing Yields
  • • Interpreting Soil Sample Results
  • • Japanese Beetles in Corn and Soybean Fields
  • • Identifying and Managing Goss’s Wilt
  • • Benefits of a Timely Corn Harvest
  • • Soybean Growth & Development
  • • Leaf Yellowing in Soybeans
  • • Harvest is Near – Be a Good Scout
  • • What To Expect With SmartStax® Refuge in the Bag (RiB)
  • • Sudden Death Syndrome
  • • European Corn Borer in Corn
  • • A Closer Look at Corn Pollination
  • • Corn Earworm (Helicoverpa zea) Management and Monitoring
  • • Management Options for Soybean Fields Previously Infected with White Mold
  • • Managing White Mold in Soybeans
  • • Agronomics for Prevented Planting Acreage
  • • Removing a Poor Stand of Corn Before Replanting Soybeans
  • • Soybean Seedling Diseases
  • • Early Season Bean Leaf Beetle in Soybeans
  • • Corn Management Guidelines
  • • Dealing with Delayed Burndown and Soybean Planting
  • • Managing Genuity® Roundup Ready® Alfalfa
  • • Two-Pass Versus One-Pass Weed Control Programs in Corn
  • • Nitrogen Practices for Late Planting Scenarios
  • • Preemergence Herbicide Damage to Corn and Soybeans in Cool, Wet Weather
  • • Effects of Sidewall Compaction on Corn Seedlings
  • • Wet Spring Concerns
  • • Assessing Nitrogen Loss after Soil Saturation
  • • Corn Starter Fertilizer with Sulfur or Zinc
  • • Nematode Management in Corn
  • • Plant by Soil Temperature and Conditions Not According to the Calendar – IL
  • • Maximizing Soybean Yield Potential
  • • Corn Planting Date and Relative Maturity
  • • The Science of Roundup Ready® Technology, Glyphosate and Micronutrients
  • • Identification and Control of Winter Annual Weeds
  • • Considerations for Changing Corn Relative Maturities in Northern IL
  • • Foliar Fungicide Applications in Corn
  • • Corn Planting – Attention to Detail Pays Off
  • • Refuge in the Bag
  • • Hybridization: What is going on?
2010
  • • Placement of Roundup Ready 2 Yield™ Varieties
  • • The Value of Being Independent in The Seed Business
  • • Roundup Ready 2 Yield ™ Lessons Learned From Year Two
  • • How to Check Your Down Pressure
2009
  • • Ethanol – Hero or Villain?
  • • Get Geared Up
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