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Be rational about planting delays

An extension soybean agronomist is urging farmers to act rationally as planting continues to get interrupted by wet weather.

Seth Naeve with the University of Minnesota says regardless of the date on the calendar, fieldwork should be dictated by soil conditions.

“It’s just like early planting, we need to get in there when the conditions are right.  And pushing on things too hard and mudding in these beans right after things start to dry out is not the right approach.”

That could mean doing things like tillage over again.

He tells Brownfield the moisture is also making it more difficult to control weeds.

“It’s really a case-by-case and farm-by-farm scenario for people to look at.  But remember, we’re still in that 95 percent of our yield potential area for soybeans.  So until things get closer to June first, I wouldn’t be too concerned.”

After June first, Naeve says soybeans start losing significant yield potential basically on a daily basis.

 

 

 

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