Scouting

maturing varieties. Plant high-quality seed within a maturity group to fit your climate, and don’t skimp on seeding rates. Good genetics can add 10 to 12 bushels yield per acre. Choose more than one variety to manage risk and yield potential. Scouting. When scouting soybean fields for weeds and insects, check for the presence of brown spot and other foliar diseases. Begin looking for symptoms on the leaves of young seedlings, especially during the first month after planting. Typically, you…

Powdery mildew in soybeans, caused by the fungus Microsphaera diffusa, is a leaf disease in soybeans, and it also affects other legumes. The disease requires cool air temperatures and low relative humidity, making it uncommon during Midwest summers. Powdery mildew occurs only occasionally in soybeans in the Midwest and Upper Midwest. Epidemics have been reported about every 10 to 15 years. Nonetheless, powdery mildew can cause significant yield loss when it occurs, so it’s important for farmers…

In the beginning, Adolf Hitler wanted to create his perfect world. His ideal world was to have one master race. He needed a new generation. A generation that would share his beliefs. A society where they only believed that everything Hitler did was right. His solution was Hitler Youth (HJ). He swayed the whole nation into this project with propaganda. It was a way for people to have more faith in him. He grabbed the attention of the youth. He wanted the youth to know they mattered. The youth…

organizations is nothing new however. Comparing the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) and national scouting programs yielded a relationship between scouting principles and servant leadership. “Scholars credit Greenleaf (1970) as the modern genesis of servant leadership. Upon further examination, our analysis suggests that Baden-Powell may have actually founded not just a scouting but a servant leadership movement as far back as in 1907.” (Rohm Jr. & Osula, 2013, p.…

A ready-carry rifle sling can come in handy when you unexpectedly encounter an elk as you are hiking around and scouting. You can easily lose your elk and your shot in the time it takes to remove your rifle from your shoulder. When you use a ready-carry sling, you can save yourself precious seconds when you come across an elk. Binocular Harness It is a given that when you go scouting for elk, you need to bring some binoculars with you.…

through a dark Forrest. A cold shrug brushed off of a wandering teen, who tried to find his way through a perilous and gloomy night. His eyes glanced toward his brother, shivering and sniffling from the cold, and his speckled companion ahead off him, scouting through the tree line with his tail above his head. "When are we going to get home? " The perilous Forrest stretched on for miles, and for a moment they both stood clueless. His brother, adamant to not get caught late grabbed his hand and…

In the movie Trouble with the curve we learned about scouting baseball players using Sabermetrics. Gus didn't think that was a logical way of scouting baseball. In the movie the scouts that worked with Gus were planing on signing Bo Gentry based on what they know from online stats. So Gus went out to North Carolina just to see how good Bo really is. After watching several games evaluating his every move Gus decided Bo was not the right fit for the team. By watching Bo, Gus figured out his…

seen by the battleships, as this maneuver took longer than two fleets heading towards each other at high speed needed to come within fighting range. It was the task of the scouting forces, consisting of battlecruisers and cruisers, to find the enemy and report from where he approached in time and if possible deny the enemy's scouting force to obtain the same…

If, like me, you are fortunate enough to be able to hunt quality public land for whitetail deer throughout the Midwest and other areas throughout the country, you know the excitement and thrill that it can provide. I’m sure you are questioning my choice of words for the opening statement. I assure you I meant what I said. “Fortunate” and “public land” do not find themselves in the same sentence very often. Public land gets a bad rap, sometimes it is deserved and other times it certainly is…

Scouts is where service was implemented deeply into my life. Scouting showed me how to appreciate helping others out and enjoy doing work. Right around the time when I joined the troop, there were a couple of senior scouts trying to get their Eagle Scout. In order to reach this rank, they had to coordinate a service project of their choosing. Other scouts were always asked to help out in these service projects. All throughout my scouting experience service has been a key part of it. There was…