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With harvest underway, there have been reports across the southern portions of Michigan of disease pressure impacting the state’s corn crops.
“There have been some areas where anthracnose has started to move in, so we may want to be watching this corn crop for a stalk issues,” says Dan Cable with Specialty Hybrids based out of Monroe County.
“Also, tar spot came in late—far too late to spend money on spraying fungicide on it—but it has also affected the integrity of that stalk and the anthracnose makes things worse,” adds Cable.
So far this harvest season, Cable says soybean yields have been measuring up well across the southern and southeastern portions of the state despite the heat and drought stress from earlier this growing season.
“Actually, the yields have been fairly decent. There have been some areas with some sandier soils that the drought affected. In some early beans that were far enough along when the rains came in August—they’re not as good as hoped, but there’s quite a few good beans out there.”
How about corn yields and corn moisture levels so far?
I’ve been hearing anywhere from 240 to 270 bushels an acre, so it’s kind of the same deal as soybeans. We just started off dry and ended dry, but early maturities are finally getting below that 25-percent mark. Some fuller maturities, such as the 113-day to 115-day corn, are still definitely around that 30-percent mark and above.”
So far, seven percent of Michigan’s corn for grain and five percent of the state’s soybeans have been harvested according to the USDA’s Crop Progress Report for Monday, Oct. 2.
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