Welcome to the 7th episode of the 2025 season! Madelyn Celovsky, MSU Extension Conservation Educator, will host Dr. Marty Chilvers, MSU Extension Field Crops Pathologist, to discuss wheat disease and treatment options. Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Resources:

Strip Rust Map

Head Scab Risk Model

Fungicide Efficacy Slide 

Welcome to the 6th episode of the 2025 season! Phil Kaatz, MSU Extension Field Crops Senior Educator, will host Dr. Kim Cassida, MSU Extension Forages & Cover Crops Specialist, to discuss how optimization of forage quality for hay and haylage can provide producers with improved animal performance. Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Welcome to the 5th episode of the 2025 season! Teresa Crook, MSU Extension Field Crops Educator, will host Dr. Erin Hill, MSU Weed Science Diagnostician, to discuss weed resistance issues in waterhemp and herbicide resistance management. Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Welcome to the 4th episode of the 2025 season! Jenna Falor, MSU Extension Field Crops Educator, will host Dr. Kurt Steinke, MSU Extension Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management Specialist, to discuss primarily nitrification inhibitors and urease inhibitors. Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Welcome to the 3rd episode of the 2025 season! Eric Anderson, MSU Extension Soybean Educator, will host Dr. Maninder Singh, MSU Cropping System Agronomy Specialist, to discuss corn and soybean planting considerations for the 2025 season. Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Welcome to the 2nd episode of the 2025 season! Christine Charles, MSU Extension Educator, will host Jason Koning, Region Manager for Precision Planting. Jason will be discussing 3 major aspects of getting your planter set up right in the spring.  Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Resources:

Precision Planting Planer Maintenance Guide 

Welcome to the 1st episode of the 2025 season! Steven Whittington, MSU Extension Educator, will host Dr. Christy Sprague, MSU Extension weed specialist. Christy will be talking about early season weed control to get your cropping year started off right.  Also, a weather update from Dr. Jeff Andresen . To learn more and register for the live event, check out the MSUE Virtual Breakfast page.

Resources:
Cover Crop Termination Guide
2025 Weed Guide

In the Weeds Series 14 Episode 15: MSU Extension educators Monica Jean and Jerad Jaborek sit down with Jason Grostic, Michigan farmer, to talk about PFAS contamination on his farm. This is the final episode for the 2024 season. 

Resources:

MSU Extension PFAS website

How MSU is Helping Farmers with PFAS Concerns

PFAS in Agriculture

In the Weeds Series 14 Episode 14: MSU Extension educators Sarah Zeiler and Madelyn Celovsky sit down with Eliza Hensel, MSU Extension compost educator, to talk about compost production and uses in Michigan. Eliza highlights the importance of knowing your feedstock and testing compost before applying. 

Resources:

Contact Eliza with compost questions: [email protected] 

EGLE Composting Regulation

In the Weeds Series 14 Episode 13: MSU Extension Environmental Management Educator Sarah Seiler sits down with Dr. Laurel Harduar Morano, MSU Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Bernie Ware, specialty crop farmer in SW Michigan, to discuss farm safety.

Resources:

• Michigan OSHA reporting fatalities and severe injuries
• MSU OEM Farm Related Injuries
• Farmer run over while attempting to remount a tractor (Youtube video)
• Hazard alert - tree work
• Hazard alert - tractors:
  • (Spanish) https://oem.msu.edu/images/Alerts/HAZ_ALERTS_TractorUpdate2023_Spanish.pdf
• Michigan AgrAbility
• Farm Stress