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Industry analysts expect the move could ease phosphate pricing pressure, though not necessarily return the market to “normal.”
Weather extremes are creating challenges, but growers can still make agronomic decisions between R4 and R6 to help protect yield potential.
Bushel targets the lien-driven failure point that forces grain settlement back onto paper.
Illinois Soybean Association on-farm research found that sulfur can boost yields under certain soil and management conditions—but it’s far from a blanket recommendation.
“COVID slowed down the progression of these decisions,” Brad Oelmann says. “If not for those issues, this would’ve happened already.”
Over the next several weeks, growers will be determining how much yield potential remains in their corn and soybean crops impacted by damaging rains and wind storms.
The latest product in Corteva’s lineup can go on fields as a pre or post, targets more than 36 broadleaf weeds and grasses, and provides up to four weeks of residual control.
Agronomists urge farmers to scout, treat and communicate any significant losses to landlords and bankers prior to harvest.
USDA ratings show that the nation’s crops lag behind Iowa’s current strong performance, while drowned-out areas and weather stress in Illinois could deliver harvest disappointments.