An extension soybean agronomist anticipates a chaotic stretch for farmers trying to catch up on planting.
Seth Naeve with the University of Minnesota says soils throughout the Upper Midwest are warm and wet, and fieldwork is way behind.
He’s encouraging growers to consider direct-seeding soybeans.
“Get them in, and they are going to pop really quickly. These soybeans aren’t going to take three weeks to come out of the ground like they normally do when we get in the first week of May.”
Naeve tells Brownfield farmers could be shuffling between cultivating, planting, and spraying in the coming weeks.
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