Harvest is underway in west Central Illinois and an agronomist says he wishes farmers were further along.
Lance Tarochione with DEKALB Asgrow says the corn crop has matured rapidly in the last month. “This crop really finished too fast, to be honest,” he says. “We had a lot of fields die prior to black layer and when that happens you’ve had a tremendous amount of stalk cannibalization and you’ve got a really weak stalk and a generally unhealthy root system.”
He tells Brownfield farmers need to assess stalk quality to determine which fields to get out first.
