Some farmers in the northern U.S. will pivot away from corn after a wet, cold
May, but prevent plant remains a rarer resort, thanks to strong commodity prices
for other row crops.
War rages overseas, drought lingers across much of the country and input
shortages persist. But U.S. farmers are heading to the field to do what they
always do: plant a crop.
A Kansas family grew a 244-bushel-per-acre field of grain sorghum, topping the
2021 National Sorghum Yield contest and setting a record for dryland wheat in
the western U.S.
Here’s a collection of fall and spring weed control options for growers who are
struggling to access key herbicides such as glyphosate, glufosinate or 2,4-D.
A growing number of soybean and sorghum farmers are deploying bioinsecticides
that spread a caterpillar-killing virus throughout fields to control podworm and
headworm.
Tar spot and Southern corn rust are still present and spreading in Midwest
cornfields. Fungicide windows are closing rapidly but scouting remains
worthwhile for future management.
SDS may be cropping up more this year with more susceptible varieties on the
market and the disease’s root rot symptoms able to affect even drier regions.