There are many factors that can keep a crop from breaking ground, including everything from low temperature to disease to herbicide injury.
“There can be a lot of different things that can go wrong,” said Stephanie Porter, agronomist at Burrus Seeds. So much time and money are invested in planting that failure before emergence is heartbreaking.
Growers often talk about the soil temperature as a critical gauge for getting the planter in the field.
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