A large amount of corn was planted in southeast North Dakota in late April and may sit in the ground for three weeks before emergence. “I’ve looked at a lot of these fields and they really look like that corn is healthy and it’s got a radicle root and it’s starting,” reports Grant Mehring, technical agronomist, Dekalb Asgrow. The early-planted corn stands should be monitored closely. “The soils were cold for a long time. People were planting corn when morning soil temps were in the 40s and it was like that for two weeks.”
