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Rains in southeast Minnesota help to finish crop

Recent rains in southeast Minnesota came at a great time for corn and soybeans. DuPont Pioneer field agronomist Brian Buck was at an event in Grand Meadow Thursday and said the moisture followed some heat the weekend before.

“We were starting to see a few fields in the really dry spots starting to melt down just a little bit from being just a touch short of moisture.  Not a major thing, but the rain did help and we needed it to finish out the corn crop.  For soybeans, there are still some flowering so it should really help out and bring the top-end yield to beans.”

Buck isn’t ready to predict yields for the 2015 crop, but he does see a lot more consistency than the previous two years.

“The big thing for me is it’s consistent where we went, but there’s also some pretty good bushel potential.  So as long as the stand is there and it’s not short on nitrogen, the potential looks really good.  There’s a little bit of northern corn leaf blight in some small pockets, but in general the corn crop looks good.  It’s big and tall just like the beans and hopefully we can finish it out and get through the rest of summer and fall.”

Buck tells Brownfield he thinks there will ups and downs with soybean yields because of pockets of white mold or sudden death syndrome, but in general the crop looks good.