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Should We Be Concerned About Cereal Leaf Beetle in 2023?

Cereal leaf beetle growth and population development can be tracked using a simple temperature-based model. Based on the temperatures in Salisbury, NC, this week (March 5-11, 2023) should be the time…

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Easy Homemade Pizza Recipe With NC Wheat

Did you know that you can cook at home with North Carolina wheat?North Carolina farmers harvest over 1 billion pounds of wheat each year. If you would like to make pizza at home using North Carolina…

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Recommendations for Treating Hessian Fly in the Spring

Scattered reports are coming in about Hessian fly infestations in North Carolina wheat. Usually this occurs after a period of cold weather when growth has slowed, followed by a warm period when wheat…

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Easy Biscuit Recipe With NC Wheat

Did you know that North Carolina wheat makes great biscuits? The type of wheat grown in our state, soft red winter wheat, is prized by bakers for making excellent flour for biscuits. North Carolina…

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How Can Farmers Export Grain Out of NC?

*This project is funded by the NC Small Grain Growers Association in an effort to address the declining wheat acres in the state by exploring potential new markets to sell wheat and create new…

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Stripe Rust Alert April 2022

Stripe rust has appeared in eastern North Carolina. It was found yesterday in field plots of DG Shirley in Washington County. A stripe rust epidemic can develop much quicker than a leaf rust…

Virginia and North Carolina map showing predicted cereal leaf beetle egg peak dates and sample sites

Scout for Cereal Leaf Beetle in Wheat Soon

I noticed a couple dogwoods blooming this morning, which reminded me to check local temperatures for cereal leaf beetle development. Insect growth can be tracked using fairly simple temperature-based…

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Webinar Recording: Wheat Disease, Insect and Crop Management Updates

Do you want to be ready to manage your wheat this spring?View the recordings from Part 3 of our online “Wheat Production Series” held on January 29, 2021, where NC State Extension specialists…

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Do I Need to Add Sulfur When Top-Dressing Wheat?

After we’ve taken a tissue sample of our wheat crop and received the analysis we can determine if our crop needs an additional application of sulfur with the nitrogen at top-dress. Dr. George Place,…

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How Much Nitrogen Should I Use at Top-Dressing?

Tissue testing is an easy way to know exactly how much nitrogen to put out at top-dress so that we optimize yield and save money on fertilizer applications. Dr. George Place, N.C. Cooperative…