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Spring Wheat Stressed by Cold Temps

Published Today

The spring wheat crop has been stressed throughout this growing season. Problems began this spring with bacterial leaf streak. That was followed by scab and a series of wetting and cooling events. "I want to stress the cooling events," said…
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Learning from the 2019 Growing Season

Published Today

Asgrow Dekalb field sales representative Ryan Fisher says there are several things farmers can learn from this growing season and take into 2020. "We hope this is abnormal weather conditions with all the moisture, but I think guys are much…
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Bringing the Crop to the Finish Line

Published Today

Farmers would like more heat and less rain to help finish the corn and soybean crops. In northwest Minnesota and northeast North Dakota, Channel Seed field sales representative Mike Dufault says the crop has potential. "There's some fields that aren't…
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Crop Conditions Vary

Published Yesterday

There is great potential for a good corn and soybean crop, but everything depends on the weather over the next few weeks. "Typically, in the month of September, we get 190 GDUs in the first part of the month and…
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Crop Conditions Vary

Published Yesterday

Mother Nature has thrown a little bit of everything at this year's crop. "There's the lucky and the unlucky this year, but, overall, it looks like a pretty strong crop," said David Blue, sales manager, Proseed. In the current farm…
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Farmers Continue to Monitor Wheat Quality

Published September 14, 2019

It is a wet, slow harvest season. "If you add up the combine hours that you'd normally have, you'd be done twice with small grains and here we are about half done," said Reed Ihry of Ihry Insurance. Quality issues,…
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More Spring Wheat to Harvest

Published September 13, 2019

Matthew Krueger still has 60 acres of spring wheat left to harvest on his East Grand Forks, Minnesota farm. "We were close, but I'm ok with where we're at. It's still green and standing, but if it does get rain,…
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