Troy Deutmeyer visits with Chris about the recent planting delays and some of the key agronomic principles in a wet and delayed environments.
The discussion includes the following topics:
- Compaction penalties versus calendar date.
- When is it time to go to earlier maturity hybrids?
- Seeding populations on late planting dates.
- Seed treatment benefits.
- Insecticide rates with corn on corn and later planting dates.
- Potential nitrogen loss: Leaching and volatilization.
- Potential future disease pressures to watch for.
- Crop protection and weed control: pre-emerge and post emerge applications.
- Replant decisions.
- Calendar dates and population considerations.