An Illinois agronomist says the management practices required to achieve high yields don’t change with the planting date.
“Continuing to focus on scouting, fungicides and weed control are going to be the keys moving forward with a late planting season.”
Samantha Schmidgall is with GROWMARK-FS in east central Illinois. She tells Brownfield being aware of crop conditions is especially important this year.
“It’s a struggle to get out there and look at some of those fields for growers but continuing to be aware of what we have going on in our crop is going to be key.”
And Schmidgall reminds growers…
“There is not going to be one right or wrong decision and we really aren’t going to know what the biggest impact on the crop was until this fall just because we are in such an anomaly of a year.”
She says soybean
yields will likely be 60 to 80% of full season beans since they were planted in
a double-crop soybean time frame.
Continue reading Management key for good yields on late planted crops at Brownfield Ag News.
