#589 - “Late” Spring Planting: Best Agronomic Practices.

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.