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Will it be a bin-busting year?

We encourage our grain growers to enter the 2025 Kentucky yield contests. Entry forms and rules are now available for Corn and Soybeans.
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UK Wheat and Small Grain Variety Trials

The 2025 results are now available. Annual variety performance testing provide farmers, seed producers, extension agents and consultants with current, unbiased information to help them select the varieties best adapted to their locality and individual requirements.

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Authored by: John Grove and Edwin Ritchey

Published on Oct. 15, 2025

Corn nitrogen (N) management expense is rising as prices for N fertilizers increase. The corn N marketplace contains several biologicals that promise to replace a portion of corn’s total fertilizer N need.

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Authored by: Edwin Ritchey John Grove

Published on Oct. 15, 2025

This newsletter starts by addressing the age-old question about different fertilizer forms and sources. We also discuss the various placement options. Many claim that a liquid fertilizer is more efficient and more available for plant use than a dry source.

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Authored by: Edwin Ritchey John Grove

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

Plant nutrients, i.e. fertilizers, come in different forms (dry/liquid) and many different analyses.

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Authored by: John Grove and Edwin Ritchey

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

At present, the upcoming crop production season looks to be difficult, financially. The intent of this article is to bring producers up to date about what we know about the “other stuff” – purchased inputs other than seed, pesticides, lime and fertilizers.

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Authored by: Dennis Egli

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

Kentucky’s soybean crop got off to a good start in 2025. Plentiful rains produced an estimated yield on August 1 of 52 bushels per acre (bu/a) according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).  A yield of 52 bu/a is not a record (the Kentucky record is 56 bu/a in 2021), but it was only slightly below the trend line (Fig.

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Authored by: Chad Lee Raul Villanueva Travis Legleiter

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

As farmers look at the economics of 2025 and the projections for 2026, some are considering cutting back on traited hybrids for the RR-only or non-GMO hybrids. The RR-only and non-GMO hybrids could reduce seed costs by about $20 per acre up front.

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Authored by: Felipe Batista Raul Villanueva

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

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Authored by: Adeshina Adewinle Raul Villanueva

Published on Oct. 14, 2025

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Authored by: John Grove and Edwin Ritchey

Published on Oct. 13, 2025

We have been hearing that some wheat producers are thinking about reducing the acres of wheat in their rotations, changing from a corn, wheat/double-crop soybean rotation to a corn, full-season soybean rotation.

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Authored by: Chad Lee Erin Haramoto Hanna Poffenbarger

Published on Oct. 13, 2025

Farmers in Kentucky have been managing many fields no-till and low-till for decades. Cover crops are needed to help reduce soil erosion, especially when following soybeans. Soybean residue is decomposing by February in many fields, leading to soil erosion. The top priority of a cover crop in these fields is to reduce soil erosion. 

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Kentucky Crop Condition and Progress

This reporting website was created by our extension associate M. Shamim using USDA-NASS data.

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Events

Webinar: Research Update on Red Crown Rot of Soybean

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Presented by Dr. Carl Bradley. This webinar is part of the Fall Crop Protection Webinar Series.

Webinar: Recent Insect Pest Numbers in Field Crops

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Presented by Dr. Raul Villanueva. This webinar is part of the Fall Crop Protection Webinar Series.

Webinar: Stopping Southern Rust

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Presented by Dr. Kiersten Wise. This webinar is part of the Fall Crop Protection Series.

Webinar: Defense Wins the Ryegrass Battle

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Presented by Dr. Travis Legleiter. This webinar is part of the Fall Crop Protection Series.

Kentucky Commodity Conference

 Sloan Convention Center

UK Winter Wheat Meeting

 - Bruce Convention Center

Mark your calendar for Feb. 3. Details to come.

Kentucky Crop Health Conference

The conference, now in its fourth year, is designed to provide practical solutions for integrated pest and disease management.

UK Wheat Field Day

 UKREC-Princeton

Mark your calendar for May 12. Details to come.

UK Corn, Soybean and Tobacco Field Day

 UKREC-Princeton

Tentative for July 21, 2026

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University of Kentucky launches 2025 Fall Crop Protection webinar series
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KATS Soil Properties Workshop is Sept. 16 in Richmond

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