On this week's Good Growing podcast we welcome Dr. Chelsea Harbach, commercial ag educator with University of Illinois Extension and nematode expert! We dive into what are nematodes and do Illinois gardeners need to worry about these microscopic worms swimming through the soil, plus the impacts that can occur on agricultural crops.

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3:42 Introducing Chelsea!

9:49 What kind of work does Chelsea do at the Monmouth Research Farm?

12:22 What is a nematode?

16:20 Are there good and bad nematodes? What kind of problems do they cause for agriculture?

21:09 Do home gardeners in Illinois need to worry about nematodes?

25:44 What remedy do we have against nematodes?

31:10 Does the population of nematodes like soybean cyst nematode go up and down over the years?

33:50 The problem with resistance and nematode infection of crops.

37:10 What does a root infected with nematodes look like?

40:40 Upcoming Crop Management Conference. Register Here go.illinois.edu/cmc2022

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