A northwest Missouri farmer says he plans to move closer to planting half soybeans and half corn in the 2021 growing season after floods last year disrupted his rotation.
Richard Oswald said to do so, he’ll have to plant soybeans in some areas back-to-back years. He tells Brownfield that has potential problems.
“We don’t really like to do soybeans on soybeans,” he said. “There are certain issues with soybeans that corn doesn’t have and that’s some fungal diseases and some soil borne diseases and nematodes.