A dry May and June continue to grow concern for farmers across the state as fields start to see signs of stress. Technical Agronomist Lance Tarchione said that right now in our part of the state, soybeans are in better shape than corn.
“They don’t look better,” said Tarchione. “Visually a lot of people probably would say their corn looks better than their beans, but as far as yield potential, or lost yield potential, soybeans have been impacted less by the dry weather than corn. Their vegetated growth has probably been impacted more than corn. They have been growing very very slowly, some appear not to be growing at all. But soybeans as a crop are more drought tolerant than corn.”
Tarchione added that a “silver lining” that comes with drought is that most fungal diseases that could impact crops need moisture to thrive.
