An evaluation tool designed for corn and soybean farmers with crop insurance who experience early-season production problems, such as flooding, poor germination or prevented planting.
During challenging seasons, it is very tough to decide whether or not to replant. Those fields require some extra attention and this article is meant to help with those field evaluations.
It seems too often that wet spring weather interferes with corn and/or soybean planting in Missouri. This year, Missouri farmers have already faced complications.
Conditions this spring have not only made planting a challenge, but have also resulted in challenges for seedling emergence. Cool, wet conditions slow germination and seedling emergence which increases the risk for early season disease development.