ABG Ag Services | Crop Conditions

Crop conditions have been improving with help from Mother Nature. Timely rainfall and warm temperatures have helped in what started out as a very wet year. Most corn is in the VT – R1 range. Late replanted corn in low spots is coming along slowly and is variable with some areas looking better than others. Over the past week and a half, we have been seeing a lot of aerial applications, in our area. Soybeans are R1 – R3. Low spots that drowned out and were replanted to soybeans are looking pretty good.

Wheat harvest is complete with most yields being in the 65 to 85 bushels per acre range.

Weeds

Some soybean fields will require a third application, but for the most part corn and soybean fields are looking fairly clean. Volunteer corn is evident in back to back glyphosate tolerant areas.

Disease

Some anthracnose has been appearing on the corn and we have been picking up more grey leaf spot. Along with those we have also been seeing rust in the corn fields. In the soybean fields we have been seeing a little bit of bacterial blight.

Insects

Corn rootworm beetles are out in full force along with Japanese beetles. Corn earworms were also present in small numbers in our sweet corn.

Marc Roberts
ABG AG Services