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Western Illinois agronomist says soybeans need rain

A west central Illinois agronomist says soybeans could use some rain.

Brad Koch with Precision Planting tells Brownfield while the crop looks good from the road, he is concerned about pod fill.

“Lots of nodes, lots of pods, but very few have I seen that are filling out very well yet.”

He says the added stress on the crop is allowing for more disease pressure.

“I’ve gotten reports of soybean stem canker, sudden death syndrome in early planted soybeans, things like that. I’m not trying to paint a drastically bad picture around soybeans, there just seems to be more issues in that crop than corn.”

He says corn handles dry spells better than soybeans, so he is more optimistic about corn yields this year.

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