Ear droppage resulting from the derecho wind event last August has created a significant volunteer corn problem.

BASF tech service rep Mark Storr covers central Iowa and tells Brownfield most growers impacted by the storm opted to plant soybeans where possible this year.

“Corn-on-corn is a little different animal, and (those farmers) were really taking a risk if they planted corn-on-corn. We simply don’t have the tools to manage volunteer corn in corn, in most cases.”

With soybeans, he says there’s a variety of management tools that are very effective in controlling volunteer corn.

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