As we wind up planting of both corn and beans in the northeast part of Kansas I believe that our little area of the country looks as good as any other place we hear about. From all accounts the true cornbelt has a lot of problems with too much rain and very saturated soils. Our hearts go out to people suffering from the flooding in areas of our country.
In our area we are somewhat late with our crop, but in my travels our crops look pretty good overall. Corn stands are very good for the most part. Standing water in corn fields is causing some yellowing to show up now. We are probably seeing some loss of Nitrogen and lack of oxygen to the root system where the fields are yellowing and this is just a fact of life this year. Weed control overall is pretty good considering the conditions the crop has been through. Our applicators are just about to get the herbicides applied on corn. We appreciate your patience with us this year. We have tried to do a timely job but, with wet fields and wind it has been a challenge in some cases. This has definately been a character building year.
We are anticipating a high incidence of diseases in corn this year. Jed and Arlan have secured an aerial applicator to apply fungicides later on the corn crop. They along with Carl Tharman will be scouting the corn fields and talking to you about this program in the near future. With new crop corn in the $7.00 range it is imperative that you get all of the bushels that are possible. If we do not contact you please call us and we will be in a position to scout your fields as we get closer to the time to be applying the fungicides on corn.
Jed and Arlan have several seed plots out this year and we are planning to have tours both in Doniphan county and the Kaw Valley area. Seed signs will be going up in the near future, so be sure to watch the new genetic linups of Asgrow, Dekalb, Willcross, and Stine in your area. Later in the summer we will be sending out letters on this. Remember to call us if you have any questions and we'll try to help you.
Many of you took advantage of our FALL PRE-PAY ammonia program. We located a supply of product,developed a program, presented it to you, and you made the decision. This has turned in to being a savings to you of $80-$100 per ton at the present time. This is one of the advantages to working with a company whose sole purpose is to serve your agronomic needs. We have only one business and that is to be the supplier of your agronomic needs. We have one lady working full time sourcing fertilzer and she does an excellent job.. We will be coming to you in the near future with other programs. Keep ADVANCED AGRONOMICS in mind for all of your crop input needs. Remember, we can't help if we don't communicate. Please call Ron, Jed, Gary, John, or Jay in Brown and Doniphan counties and in the Kaw valley area call Danny or Arlan. If you can't reach any of them don't hesitate to call me at the Hiawatha office. We all have cell phones and can be reached at any time. Let us help you. We can only help you if you give us a call.
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Light rains will continue Friday in the Ohio Valley and northern Delta, with mostly dry weather in the rest of the main U.S. crop areas. The heart of the holiday weekend will feature rain pushing into the Southeast through the East Coast. » More DTN Weather Commentary
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