During the harvest we’re helping farmers with tips on how they can look forward to the 2023 season and Win the Furrow.
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie says there have been many advancements the last 5-10 years related to products that help protect the seed.
Ferrie says, “One of the things we think about in the world today that we we didn’t have five years ago, definitely didn’t have ten years ago, is the book of different types of seed treatments that we can use. So we have, I would say, a lot higher horsepower, insecticide and fungicides that we can apply in furrow that not only give us protection on the seed in the seed area, but can also give us systemic protection up in the plant for the first period of that of that corn crops life. As well as nematocides, meaning that we deal with certain areas, we deal with the number of corn nematodes that give us trouble. And today we can actually add nematocides to the seed treatment itself and give us a lot of especially early protection on nematode feeding in the in the sands, especially where the nematode pressure is high. These are tools that we didn’t have just five years ago, for the most part. Definitely not ten years ago.”
