Wet spring leading to “weird” crop issues

Wet spring leading to “weird” crop issues

An Integrated Pest Management specialist says growers dealing with persistent rains could start running into some weird issues.

Bruce Potter with the University of Minnesota tells Brownfield damping off is occurring in both corn and soybean fields along sidehill seeps where excess water injured crops.

He says unusual pests are also starting to surface.

“We’ve actually got some millipedes in corn (which) aren’t insects, they are diplopoda. 

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