The Chat 'n Chew Cafe offers an up-to-date "menu" with the latest crop production newsletters and news releases compiled from universities and other public Web sites across the U.S. Upcoming crop-related educational events are listed along the left side of the screen. The Cafe is owned and operated by your friendly neighborhood Extension corn specialist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Comments sent to him at rnielsen at purdue.edu are gladly received, always read and frequently acted upon.
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- (8 Mar)

- Nebraska Crop Watch Newsletter
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- Monitor Stored (and Standing) Corn for Grain Mold Diseases
- March Grain Storage: Since You Can't Keep it Cold, Get it Dry
- Harvesting Corn after Rain, Snow and Wind
- Tips for Harvesting Corn in the Snow
- Standing Corn Still in the Field? Try Grazing to Capture Its Value
- Delayed Harvest and Crop Insurance Issues
- Spray Winter Annuals in Dormant Alfalfa
- Preseason Hay Equipment Maintenance Recommended
- New Fescue Varieties Are Worth Considering
- Crop Insurance Deadline March 15; Evaluate New Factors
- Nebraska Chemigation Training Sites Set
- NDA Seeks Specialty Crop Grant Proposals
- Federal Funds Available To Fight Invasive Weeds
- (6 Mar)

- Kentucky Pest News

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- Corn Seed Treatment for Nematodes
- Choose Wisely…Avoid unprofitable strategies to manage moldy grain
- Reminder: Furadan Use Cancelled on Food Crops
- (3 Mar)

- Missouri Integrated Pest & Crop Management Newsletter

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- Root-Knot Nematodes Damage Missouri Cotton
- Minimizing Stand Establishment Diseases in 2010
- Nitrogen Loss Cuts Into 2009 Corn Profits
- (27 Feb)
- Immobilization In Soils
- (27 Feb)
- Iowa Integrated Crop Management Newsletter
- (25 Feb)
- Ohio C.O.R.N. Newsletter
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- Overholt Drainage School Offered in West Central Ohio
- Applying Fertilizer Materials to Frozen, Snow Covered Ground
- 2009 Northwest Ohio Corn Silage Test
- Belay Insecticide Labeled on Soybean in Ohio
- Seed treatments: the range of what they control
- (22 Feb)
- What's Cropping Up?

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- Safener Reduces Potential for Corn Injury with Sulfonylurea Herbicides
- CruiserMaxx Seed Treatment: To Treat or not to Treat?
- Impact of N Fertilizer Sources on Corn Silage Yield and Quality
- Spring Topdress N Rate Studies on Winter Wheat
- Research Restrictions on Public Scientists with GM Crops: A Problem for the Agricultural Community
- (22 Feb)
- Soft Red Winter Wheat Update
- (20 Feb)
- Wisconsin Crop Manager Newsletter
