With late planting and the cool and wet weather in June and July, a late harvest season was anticipated. “We got that really above average spell of weather in September and October and all of a sudden we were off the charts for drydown in corn; we were losing well over a point of moisture per day in many places,” said Grant Mehring, technical agronomist, Dekalb Asgrow. Conditions have been ideal for crown rot and stalk rot. As a result, corn is very susceptible to snapping off low on the plant. Prioritizing those corn fields would make sense, but Mehring said it may not matter with all the wind we’ve had. The bushels are “extremely satisfactory” with Mehring citing averaged in parts of southeastern North Dakota “like 240 bushels an acre with pretty dry corn, 17-18 percent moisture.” Listen to the interview.
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