Seedling Stress Seen This Spring

At Hillsboro, North Dakota, most of the crop has emerged. “I do fear that in some areas, we may see a little bit of yellowing in corn and wheat,” reports Mackenzie Adams, sales agronomist, CHS Ag Services. “When you get sandblasted and it is 90 degrees out and it drops down to 32 degrees, you know it has been stressed.” With the amount of topsoil movement with the strong winds, there is concern about the impact on the growing point of the plant. “It may not make a difference; there may not have been enough topsoil that actually moved, but if something doesn’t look like having, let’s have a conversation about what’s going on.”