Is the corn going to make it? That’s one question Rock and Roll Agronomy owner Jason Hanson posed to farmers at the Peterson Farms Seed field day agronomy clinic. His short answer was the crops need heat. “The last half of August and first part of September, we haven’t had much. We still have canola, wheat and barley in fields. The weather is also terrible for desiccating soybeans,” says Hanson. Farmers also expressed challenges with Goss’s wilt in corn, white mold in soybeans and thistle caterpillars. Crop Tech Consulting owner Ken Ferrie is surprised about how heavy Goss’s wilt is in North Dakota. “A lot of fields are dealing with Goss’s wilt and anthracnose. It’s a tough one to deal with,” says Ferrie. “We’re also dealing with it in Illinois. It’s a situation that’s a little puzzling, from hardly being noticed for the last three years to seeing it in fields.”
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