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Mid-County Messenger Page 2 www.midcountycoop.com Fall 2006 Mid-County Agronomy Rain or shine, timing is everything Corn had an up-and-down year. Much of the corn was in the ground before a four day rain event in early May. Unfor- tunately, not all of the corn made it out of the ground. This was the worst year in my recent memory for corn needing to be replanted. When it dried up enough to get back in the fields, it stayed dry until the middle of June. Many of the pre-plant incorporated and pre-emerge herbicides did less than an adequate job in weed control with this extended dry spell. However, they did better than the conventional post her- bicides. Many of the weeds were not actively growing at the time of post her- bicide application, and failure to take in a lethal dose left many of weeds still alive until rains did arrive, when they could start growing again. It was a challenging year for conven- tional herbicide weed control. Round- up/Glyphosate tolerant and Liberty Link crops faired better at controlling weeds in fields, but it seems that most fields are receiving two applications. Even with two timely applications, I am seeing more and more weeds that are germinating after the second application and producing seed. The most consistent option for weed con- trol is using a combination of residual pre- emerge herbicide with Roundup or Liberty systems. Rains in June made the crops look pretty good after the extended dry spell until one of the rains brought a two-mile- wide swath of hail right over Cologne in late June. I’ve never seen hail that bad in my ten years at Mid-County, and I hope I never see it ever again. Conventional wisdom told us that the corn would pull through alright, and the soybeans would Joe Forner Agronomist [email protected] be hurt more by the timing and severity of the storm. Looking at the fields now, I am thinking that the soybeans have shown a lot more resilience than the corn, and maybe some of the corn fields should have been disked down instead. July brought back the warm and dry just at the wrong time for the corn. It is a testament to the new hybrids that we don’t have more blank ears or other pollination problems. One of my observations was that fields with high fertility or an aggres- sive fertilizer regimen held their yields better than the ones with a less aggressive fertilizer program. By supplying more than adequate amounts of plant food, the plants are better able to deal with other stresses such as heat and lack of water. Potassium plays a vital role in a plant’s ability to regulate water so that may be a factor in how well certain fields held up under the extreme heat and lack of water at pollination. We have a couple of research plots look- ing at nitrogen and phosphorous response in corn. We don’t have the results from these two at the time I am writing this, but Schedule a seed appointment with us and recieve $ 20 .00 towards your next bulk fuel purchase. Call Doug, Kent, or Joe to schedule an appointment - No purchase required should have them by the end of October. We did have some fungicide treatment tri- als for both corn and soybeans. The corn was treated with Headline shortly after tassel, and the one trial we took to har- vest showed a 13-bushel yield advantage with the fungicide even though there was marginal visual difference. The Headline fungicide applied to soybeans showed a 5.7 bushel advantage this year, after not showing any statistical difference last year in our area. One thing that we learned last year, is that our application may have been too early to get the maximum benefit for the soybeans. This year, the fungicide was applied about two weeks later and the soy- beans were near their maximum vegetative growth. Even without much fungal pres- sure, the treated beans responded nicely. Our plots will be used with a hundred or more plots in Minnesota to discern the rea- sons why some applications show a good response in one instance and little or no response in others. If you are interested in participating in some of these on-farm trials, contact Joe, Kent, or Doug. Another product that we used this year on trial basis was Contans on soybeans for preventing white mold or Sclerotinia. Due to the low incidence of white mold this year, we are unsure how much of an effect the Contans had on the three fields that it was applied on. This may take a few years before we have a definitive answer on how well this product works in the control of white mold. We are looking for fields that have a white mold history that are going to soybeans next year to run some more trials on. 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