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Crop Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Outreach activities

Extension and Outreach

  • Agricultural Research, Education, and Demonstration Centers
    Information about the six agricultural research stations located throughout Illinois.
  • Agronomy Day
    This annual event is a one-stop educational opportunity for you to engage the latest knowledge on profitable, sustainable, and environmentally sound strategies for producing food and feed crops and for protecting natural resources.
  • Agronomy Handbook
    The definitive guide to field and forage crop production in Illinois. Soil management, testing, and fertility. Expected crop yields. Farm safety information.
  • Corn and Soybean Classic, University of Illinois
    Text, slides, and audio delivering the most current information about crop production and crop protection to producers and agribusiness professionals throughout the state of Illinois.
  • Crop Protection Technology Conference
    An educational program on the use of crop protection products to serve both agriculture and the environment.
  • Fertilizer Conference Proceedings, Illinois
    The complete archive of the annual Proceedings from the Illinois Fertilizer Conference.
  • Field Crop Diseases
    Information and management strategies for Illinois field crop diseases.
  • Fruit and Vegetable News
    This newsletter, published 25 times per year, provides crop and pest updates directly to approximately 200 commercial fruit and vegetable producers in Illinois. In addition, electronic mail and Internet distribution of this newsletter reaches over 150 producers, industry personnel, and university researchers and extension professionals in other states.
  • Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
    The Cooperative Extension Service IPM program at the University of Illinois.
  • Pesticide Safety Education
    Training programs and educational information on the effective, economic, and environmentally sound use of pesticides.
  • Pest Management and Crop Development Bulletin
    Producers, crop consultants, and other agribusiness professionals can keep up to date on insect, weed, and plant disease situations and crop conditions in Illinois by subscribing to the Pest Management and Crop Development Bulletin. The series of bulletins, prepared weekly during the growing season by entomologists, agronomists, and plant pathologists, report on the current agricultural conditions with advice on pest management.
  • Phytophthora Ramorum
    Sudden oak death/P. ramorum blight is a disease that can affect a wide range of ornamental hosts.
  • Plant Clinic, University of Illinois
    Services include plant and insect identification, diagnosis of disease, insect, weed and chemical injury, etc.
  • Soybean Rust Information Center, Illinois
    Provides information for understanding and managing soybean rust in Illinois.
  • Vegetable and Fruit Crops Pathology
    This site has been constructed to be used as an information source on various fruit and vegetable crop diseases. It is updated and maintained on a regular basis to bring you the most recent news and information regarding disease research.
  • Weed Science, University of Illinois
    Provides information related to weed biology and management in agronomic systems. Weed science personnel at the University of Illinois are located in the Departments of Crop Sciences, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.
  • Western Corn Rootworm Index
    Predicting western corn rootworm larval damage in corn after soybeans.