On the whole, the bushels are there with this year’s corn crop. Dekalb Asgrow Technical Agronomist Grant Mehring said yields are 20-to-30 percent above expectations. “That has caused some levels at the elevator and storage level. This is very dry corn.” Crown rot and stalk rot have compromised stalk quality. Mehring sees that as a learning opportunity. “You have a great corn crop that may have a little bit of a weaker stalk complex, what is the best thing we can do?” said Mehring. “The best thing we can do is a fungicide with that herbicide, spraying a herbicide a little later and put on a fungicide like Delaro Complete from Bayer on at V4 of V5, you’re going to have a much stronger stalk. That probably would have been what would have helped this.”
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