Special Report

LG Seed customers saw all kinds of weather

Weather means something to Leonard Luebker. The LG Seeds agronomist easily reels off specific dates on which weather took peculiar turns, each creating stiff challenges for Midwestern corn growers.

“We look at the third week of March and there wasn’t enough soil moisture hardly to get any crop out of the ground and then in April we started getting rain and the cool temperatures and the first of May we got some snow,” Luebker told Brownfield Ag News at Husker Harvest Days. “And then the 12th of May, that Sunday, we had some frost overnight and 36 hours later, on that Tuesday afternoon when people were planting, we were at 101, 102 degrees.”

Leonard Luebker at Husker Harvest Days

The point Luebker is making is that growers need the right seed products to take the stresses that are all too common in the Midwest. He’s glad to talk about those products too, as you’ll hear.

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AUDIO: Leonard Luebker (3 min. MP3)

AUDIO: Matt Teply (2 min. MP3)

Photos: Leonard Luebker and Matt Teply at Husker Harvest Days

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