Sunshine replaced the haze from the Canadian wildfires for the third day of the Red River Farm Network Crop Tour, presented by Pioneer. Page, North Dakota-based Page Seed at Agronomy hosted its annual field day near Colgate Wednesday. “This plot has had about 4.5 inches of rain since planting on May 11, which is about six inches short of normal,” reports Paige Elsner, who owns the agency with her sister, Debbie Midstokke. “It looks great, and I don’t know how it looks so good when we missed a few key rains.” Most of the soybeans in the area are in the R6 stage and filling pods. Elsner is “pleasantly surprised” with the pod counts and yield potential. GDUs are about 250 heat units ahead of `normal. “Our 88-day corn should black layer in about a week.” The interview is online.
