An agronomy specialist says a wet harvest has meant quality concerns in many parts of the Corn Belt.
Nick Hustedde with FMC tells Brownfield a delayed harvest and disease issues in soybeans have meant some growers are being discounted at the elevator. “We started picking up more frog eyed leaf spot pressure about the middle of July and we’ve had pretty consistent moisture since then. It brought on quite a bit of fungal infection, we do have some discoloration that’s been happening and some dockage at the elevator.”
He says corn lodging also increases the risk of vomitoxin which is being reported at above normal levels from Iowa and Nebraska to Michigan and Ohio.
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