Dryland Corn Newsletter Webpages

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King Corn
The objective of the KingCorn.org website is to offer a web-based encyclopedia of knowledge about the production, marketing and usage of corn in North America. KingCorn.org includes the latest technology and information from major agricultural universities, governmental agencies, corn grower organizations and agricultural industries across Canada and the United States. This website contains hundreds of links to on-line publications that address nearly every agronomic aspect of producing a corn crop and is searchable by keyword. Visit at: http://www.kingcorn.org

National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center
This website provides weekly drought updates, soil moisture forecasts, and crop moisture index maps. Go to: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/index.htm l

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin
Every Tuesday this website is updated with the latest crop moisture maps, precipitation maps, soil temperature maps, and growing degree day maps. http://www.usda.gov/oce/waob/jawf/wwcb.html

Central Great Plains Research Station
The USDA-ARS research station in Akron, Colorado serves the farmers of the Central Great Plains. The website includes annual reports, factsheets, and research information on dryland corn and other crops and cropping systems. http://www.akron.ars.usda.gov /

Colorado State University Dryland Agroecosystem Project
The 2001 technical bulletin summarizing data from this dryland crop rotation project from 1985 to the present is available here: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/AES/Pubs/tb01-2.pd f

Colorado State University Cooperative Extension factsheets
Available factsheets include 0.516 Dryland Cropping Systems (R.L. Croissant, G.A. Peterson, and D.G. Westfall ) and 0.538 Fertilizing Corn (J.J. Mortvedt, D.G. Westfall, and R.L. Croissant).
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/pubcrop.html#pro d

Colorado State University Crops Testing Program
Results are available here for irrigated, dryland, and silage hybrid testing results for corn trials in Colorado from 1996-2001. Results for other crops are available here, as well.
http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/SoilCrop/extension/CropVar/index.htm l

High Plains Integrated Pest Management Guide
This website is a cooperative effort of four land-grant universities and covers Colorado, Western Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. General IPM principles are covered, in addition to details about specific insects and diseases. Learn more at: http://www.highplainsipm.org /


FROM THE GROUND UP agronomy news is a monthly publication of Cooperative Extension, Department of Soil & Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Web Site: http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/SoilCrop/extension/Newsletters/news.html The information in this newsletter is not copyrighted and may be distributed freely. Please give the original author the appropriate credit for their work.
Jessica Davis, Technical Editor Direct questions and comments to: Deborah Fields Phone: 970- 491-6201 Fax: 970-491-2758 e-mail: dfields@lamar.colostate.edu	Extension staff members are: Troy Bauder, Water Quality Mark Brick, Bean Production Joe Brummer, Forages Betsy Buffington, Pesticide Pat Byrne, Biotechnology Jessica Davis, Soils Jerry Johnson, Variety Testing Raj Khosla, Precision Farming Sandra McDonald, Pesticide Calvin Pearson, New Crops James Self, Soil, Water, & Plant Testing Reagan Waskom, Water Resources