#Plant2025 for Success
You’ve weighed the agronomics and the economics — and now the planter is rolling. The decisions don’t stop, though. The weather changes plans, equipment breaks and pests pop up. Every step plays a role in the success of your planting season as well as the growing and harvest seasons to come.
A wide-open week with dry weather helped farmers make large strides in planting progress. USDA shows as of Sunday, May 2, 46% of the corn crop had been planted, a 29-point jump in just a week.
Drier weather helped aid major planting progress for U.S. farmers last week, but it didn’t help the topsoil moisture situation. USDA’s Crop Progress report indicates 55% of the U.S. topsoil is considered ‘adequate.’
Freezing temperatures, frost and cold weather are testing theories about the yield benefits of ultra-early planted soybeans. Agronomist Missy Bauer says soybeans are surprisingly hardy.
After several years of challenging weather, Ohio farmers are dodging snow and cold temperatures to put corn and soybeans in the ground. According to USDA, roughly 8% of those crops are now planted.
While corn and soybean prices continue to march higher, farmers are making progress getting the 2021 corn, soybean and cotton crops in the ground.
In the rush to get corn and soybeans in the ground, keep in mind some principles that can help your crops get a strong start this season.
Farmers will need to take into consideration the cover crop, timing, weather and stage of growth, says an Ohio seedsman.
Many commonly used herbicides are hard to find, and prices are trending higher. Fungicide availability may also be limited in some cases.
For the Horas, not much field work has danced across their Iowa soils so far. They planted a few acres this past weekend, but fieldwork has been minimal due to the cold and wet conditions this year.
USDA’s weekly Crop Progress Report started tallying soybean planting progress. In the first report of the year to include soybeans, USDA showed 3% of the soybean crop is planted, one point ahead of average.
West Texas farmer Blake Fennell says if rains don’t hit West Texas fields in the next month, it’ll be devastating to the area’s cotton crop with the outlook for cotton acre abandonment already high.
If your weather conditions are tanking, consider answering two important questions Ken Ferrie asks before you head to the field.
The latest U.S. Drought Monitor shows from North Dakota to Texas, all the way west to California, the most severe levels of drought didn’t ease across the U.S. this past week.
Between 10% and 20% of yield potential can be lost, if you plant corn in unfavorable conditions.
North Dakota just endured its driest September to March ever on record. On Thursday, Governor Doug Burgum declared a state of emergency due to drought. Farmers are now forced to make tough decisions, early.
2021 is off to a dry start and one meteorologist sees dry conditions expanding in the West over the next few months. So, could 2021 be a repeat of 2012? USDA meteorologist weighs in.
“Over the last 20 years, we’ve never seen a drought situation looking like this through February,” says Nutrien Ag Solutions’ Eric Snodgrass.
While weather this week is helping bring moisture to portions of the Plains, climatologists say you have to go back a couple decades to see a drought scenario similar to this year. The dryness is planting concerns.
USDA’s latest Crop Progress Report revealed 85% of New Mexico is seeing short to very short topsoil moisture conditions, and 83% of North Dakota is seeing topsoil conditions that are desperately dry.
Getting plants up and running is important to a successful growing season. To do that many farmers are using well-placed fertility to Win the Furrow.
To win the furrow this planting season means making sure plants have all the nutrition they need early. There are plenty of options for farmers to consider during the planter pass.
Some of those annual limiting factors can be addressed in-furrow via the planter.
As cover crops make their way on to more acres, dealing with that new planting environment brings its own challenges.
Northwest Indiana farmers had a jumpstart to the 2021 planting season, with some farmers planting soybeans the earliest they ever have. As farmers push the planting dates, they say it pays to plant soybeans early.
A drier and milder window to plant last week played into farmers’ favor. The latest USDA Crop Progress Report shows planting is ahead of average.
With a consecutive warm and dry days in much of the Corn Belt, some farmers were able to start planting earlier than normal last week, but the weather pattern this week is flipping, with a cooler bias setting in.
The supply-and-demand outlook already suggested profit potential into 2022/23 (not continuously high prices, but profit opportunities).
From Colorado to Illinois, the race to plant the 2021 crop is on. Mother Nature provided the Midwest with some warm, dry days, and that meant farmers got in the fields to plant.
USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service forecasts Brazilian producers will expand soybean planted area to reach 40 million hectares in the 2021/22 season, up from the estimated 38.5 million ha planted in the 2020/21 season