Cover Crops

Queen Anne's County has scheduled an in-person winter meeting for farmers who plant field crops yearly. This meeting will provide the latest and most accurate information on growing field crops. On this webpage, you will find the current recordings from this meeting.

Agronomy Newsletter -November 2023, Volume 14, Issue 8. Topics include: Flame Weeding for Early-Season Weed Control, Optimizing Early Season Pest Management for Maryland Field Corn, Effects of Cover Crops and Nitrogen Rates on Corn Yields, 2023/2024 UME Crop Production Meetings, Soybean Foliar Fungicide Trials, 2023 Maryland Tar Spot Research, Effects of Increasing Corn Tissue Boron and Sulfur Concentrations on Nitrogen and Yield , Corn Planting Timing Effects on Yield and the Relationship to Deer Feeding , Soil Texture Relationships to Grid Sampled Coastal Soils, Nutrient Management Update, Advanced Cover Cropping Field Day, 2023 Maryland Corn Hybrid Trials, SBA Disaster Loan Program, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports

Agronomy Newsletter -October 2023, Volume 14, Issue 7. Topics include: Pesticide & Nutrient Management Trainings, EPA Webinar on Bulletins Live Two, 2023 Crop Management School Registration, Scout for Aphids in Small Grains, 2022-2023 Cover Crop Growth and Tillage, On-Farm Research Trials, Tar Spot Confirmed in Additional Counties, Job Openings: Nutrient Management Advisors, Updated Tax Credits for Farmer Food Donations, Farm Storage Facility Loan Program, Cost-Share for Manure Transport & Injection, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy Newsletter -September 2023, Volume 14, Issue 6. Topics include: Farmland Rental Averages, Mid-Atlantic Crop Management School, Nutrient Management Farmer Training, Tar Spot Confirmed in Maryland for 2023, SARE Farmer Grants, Nitrogen Modeling Survey, Beneficial Stink Bugs in Crops, Deer Damage Survey, Wildlife Wednesday Webinars, On-Farm Research Trials, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy Newsletter -August 2023, Volume 14, Issue 5. Topics include: 2022 Maryland Weed Control Trial Results, 2022/23, Maryland Wheat & Barley Trials, 4R Symposium, Frederick Grain Marketing Meetings, New Nutrient Management Details Revealed, Nutrient Management Task Force Nominations, When Does Corn Rally in August?, Public Release of Pesticide Incident Data, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy Newsletter -July 2023, Volume 14, Issue 4. Topics include: Wildlife Management Symposium, Nutrient Management Update, Cover Crop Sign-Up, Interested in Planting Green?, Cover Crop Seeding Forum, Wheat Quality and Falling Numbers, Weather Market Phenomena, Hay and Straw Directory, Corn and Soybean Fungicide Charts, Scouting for Tar Spot in Corn, Pesticide Exam Now Available Online, LEAD Maryland Applications Open, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

Agronomy News-May 2023, Volume 14, Issue 2. Topics in this issue are Up and Down: Maryland Weather at its Finest, How’s That Burndown Looking?, Wet Cool Spring May Increase Slug Damage, Managing Fusarium Head Blight in Small Grains: Symptoms, Favorable Environments, and Disease Management Strategies, Maryland Weather Outlook, Maryland Regional Crop Reports, MDA Pesticide Container Recycling Program Ending, Don’t Forget to Take a Manure Test, Pythium Root Rot in Corn, USDA Still Accepting Census of Ag Responses From MD Producers, April 2023 Grain Market Update (information from USDA WASDE report), Managing and Scouting Fields for Fusarium Head Blight, New Web-Based Soybean Herbicide Tool, and Bt and Herbicide Tolerant Traits in Corn and Current Resistance of Target Insect Pests.

It feels that most years we find ourselves finding something abnormal about the weather. This year is no exception and in some ways is even more different from our “abnormal-normal.” Put lightly; the 2022-2023 winter was mild. There were only a handful of instances where we fell significantly below freezing and stayed there for more than a night or two. In fact, the average temperature from January to March of 2023 of 43.4 degrees Fahrenheit, was the second warmest on record in the 128-year NOAA Statewide Time Series dataset, just falling behind 2012 at 43.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Agronomy News-April 2023, Volume 14, Issue 1. Topics in this issue are Crop Budgets and Custom Farming Rates, Survey: Nitrogen Management, Forage Soybean Studies, New AgFS Educator, Hiring Nutrient Management Positions, Considerations for Burndown Programs in 2023, Grid Sampling to Improve Understanding of Soil Variability, Hughes Center Internship, Small Grain Disease Resources, Fusarium Head Blight Overview, Preparing for Tar Spot of Corn in 2023, Grain Market Report, Weather Outlook, and Regional Crop Reports.

The University of Maryland Extension is now offering a free service to consult with farmers to identify the top needs of their crop fields, and then plan and implement cover crops that will best address those needs. The grant-funded project will provide financial cost-share support for cooperating farmers. This support will complement the support provided by other cost-share programs, such as Maryland Department of Agriculture’s MACS program.