Headland Highlights Late April Field Report from NW, WC, and SC Minnesota
Good day, and welcome to the University of Minnesota Extension and CFANS podcast, Minnesota CropCast. I'm Dave Nicolai, University of Minnesota Extension crops educator, along with my co host Doctor. Seth Nave, University of Minnesota Extension soybean specialist. Dave Well welcome back to the University of Minnesota Extension Minnesota CropCast. I'm your host Dave Nicolai along with my co host Doctor.
Dave:Seth Nave, University Minnesota Extension soybean specialist. And Seth today we're catching up with our co workers around the state of Minnesota to get a little update in terms of planning progress, what's been done, what are some things that have to be done yet and then talking about the future as far as completing this process. We started off early in some parts of the state but not everybody is in the field at this point in time And it's amazing we I think for the first time in a long time, we have a great dichotomy of differences from south to north. So I think we're gonna start off and we're gonna go to the north the first. And I have my coworker on with us, Angie Peltier.
Dave:Angie, you wanna introduce yourself and talk about your title and what you're covering and geographically where you're housed at and where you're situated and what you observe.
Angie:Sure. Thanks, Dave. Thanks for the invitation. Glad to join you here today. So again, my name is Angie Peltier.
Angie:I work for the University of Minnesota Extension in Crookston. So Crookston is about an hour and a half north of, the Fargo Moorhead region. We are solidly in the Red River Valley, but there's about another hour and a half north that you'd need to go in order to hit the Canadian border. But, we are the the farthest north research and outreach center in the state, so I actually work out of the Northwest Research and Outreach Center up here. And, I believe that there's field work that started, yesterday, for the first time so far this year in at the research center proper.
Angie:But in my travels around the region, Dave, I've noticed, quite a dichotomy even within my own region. And so, we live in Polk County. It's one of the largest, counties just geographically in the state, at least on the the Western side of the state. It has a large footprint. And so going, from west to east in, in the West, you have East Grand Forks, and then you follow the northernmost, East West Interstate in the country, Highway 2.
Angie:And you follow that east, and that will eventually take you down to Duluth. But in that entire trip across the county, which takes takes an hour and a half or more, I didn't see a single, piece of equipment in the field. I should say Not one.
Dave:We're preface this. We're recording this probably a little bit earlier than people would have seen it otherwise. We're at the at the very April, the April 30, first So of this is a time frame. But up until this point in time, obviously, from what you said, what were the conditions? Were we just so cold or so wet or was it a combination of things?
Angie:Well, we actually had snow cover this past year, Dave, which is something that, was a welcome change from the last couple of years where we had open ground and a lot of, soil moving around as a result. So we had some nice snow cover that started to to melt away several weeks ago. We've had this kind of roller coaster of of warmth and and cold alternating back and forth. We're in a cold spell right now, and we we have gotten up into the eighties, though, so far this year. And so it's it's just one of those things.
Angie:We're bouncing back and forth. But, over the region, in the last month, we've had half an inch to, four inches of rainfall, and, it's really varied. So in the northern and and western part of the the Northwest Crop reporting district, that tended to be drier, where, more southerly eastern portions of the the district tended to be a little bit more wet. And so we're dealing with additional precipitation and snow melt, and we're dealing with cold temperatures, cold soil temperatures. So one thing that that folks throughout the rest of the state are now getting to access is these end on or MON stations.
Angie:So we've had them for many years now up in the Red River Valley, primarily due to the sugar beet, growers and the coops putting these stations up.
Dave:These are wet weather stations, I wanna presume. Yes.
Angie:Yes. Correct. So, those actually give us both, four inch depth soil temperatures in bare soils and then in sod sod, under sod. So four inches deep. And what we've seen, just today is, the four inch soil temperature in bare soil ranges anywhere from between thirty thirty nine, degrees up to 45.
Angie:So 39 in Roseau and Kitson County, bordering the Canadian border, basically, and 45 around the Moorhead region. So there's some variation. And under sod and so I I tend to think of of bare inch bare soil temperatures and sod soil temperatures. If you have a lot of residue, you know, you're somewhere between the two of those if you are very close to one of these end on stations. But under sod, these temperatures have been, colder.
Angie:So 30 hovering right around 32, up in Kitson and Marshall and Rosehill Counties and down to about 40. And so
Seth:So you haven't seen any any weed or small grains, or even sugar beets go in yet? Is that is that what you overall?
Angie:No. Not overall. So this is why I started making phone calls. So in my travels across the entire county, I I didn't see a whole lot, except I did see quite a few tractors with, tillage implements in tow just parked. And I think that that was, due to wet soil conditions.
Angie:However, making the rounds around my region, I've found that, it really varies. So there are a lot of people, and it sort of depends on their philosophy. So some people pay very close attention to soil temperatures and actually use that to gauge when to start planting, and other, field work. Other people just go at it as soon as they can get in the field. And so what we're seeing right now, throughout the region is there's, you know, Roseau, Kitson County area.
Angie:Some people have started on on wheat and sugar beets. So Chris Fallon, he works for Foundation Seeds. He's he's very well connected to working with a lot of the the spring wheat, seed growers. He estimates around 15% of the wheat acres have been planted so far in the Northern Red River Valley. Approximately, a quarter of the sugar beet acres have gone in, I'd say, in the Northern Red River Valley.
Angie:And then there are some people so I just talked got off the phone right before I talked with you, I'm talking with you now with a farmer from Clay County. He literally farms a couple miles outside of the the city, of Moorhead. And this guy, says he's waiting for the soil temperatures to warm up. And so it really is philosophical, it seems, to some people, whether or not they they wanna get into the field this early. I'd say some folks have started on their their corn acres.
Angie:So some people in in Clay, which is the county where, Morehead is and over in Becker County, some of those folks are completely done with their wheat and and sugar beets, and, some of them are mostly done with corn. Some people are moving on to soybeans even. You would say So it really varies.
Dave:You say that the next week, the first week in May here, that's coming up. I don't know how much rain is being in the forecast, but not cool or dry, but we'll probably make a lot of progress in some of these areas if if they're waiting for it just to dry up a little bit more because I think now they're gonna be planning planning by that calendar, not so much even the temperature at this point. That wouldn't be my guess at this point.
Angie:So a lot are talking about plans for the weekend. Yeah. So this is it I think they are waiting for a calendar date now. Just okay. I'll I'll give it to the weekend, and then I'll get into the fields.
Dave:Okay.
Angie:So some people have have been tilling quite a bit, depending on the the region and other people, spreading fertilizer. I know some people have just started spreading fertilizer. So it really varies.
Dave:A lot of variation. Well, let's move down a little farther along the state lines down to what I call West Central Minnesota, and Anthony Hansen, is on the line with us. And Anthony is our, regional extension educator. Anthony, why don't you introduce yourself and tell folks where you're located at?
Anthony:Sure. Thanks, Dave. So, yeah, I'm a extension educator in integrated pest management. So, basically, I'm an entomologist, but also I cover diseases, weeds, And I cover pretty much most of the West Central area of the state. So my office is based out of Morris at the regional office and research and outreach center there.
Anthony:But then also, I'm from the Bruton area. We have a farm out here, beef cattle, corns, soybeans, alfalfa. So I tend to range a lot between Morris and over to Bruton area. And, yeah, lately, we're just starting to get into alfalfa planting here on our farm. Haven't gotten into the corn or soybean quite yet, but I think that's kind of the story for a lot of folks who kinda like Angie's situation too, pretty disjointed in terms of some folks.
Anthony:They got out there pretty early. I was seeing planters, basically, early April on the road even in some cases. I think these are some of the bigger operations that have more acres to cover, and they could just get out there. But I'm still seeing a lot of tractors out there now just in terms of tillage going on, some planting too. So it's definitely a mixed bag.
Anthony:Weather was kind of the question. We had that pretty good shot of rain over last weekend. Ballparking around, I'd say, an inch to half an inch, maybe a little bit further west closer to Morris, a little bit less rain there. So where I am, we're on sandy ground. So things dried out pretty quick, and we're able to get out into a lot of the areas.
Anthony:Even some of the low spots aren't as bad as I thought they would be after that much rain. So, things are progressing pretty quick, but I think there are a lot of folks that were either holding off because they had other things going on. They weren't sure about the calendar yet. So I think I'm seeing a lot more action now than I was, earlier on. But just to see some of those fields completely planted by, like, April 10 or so as I think when I saw some of those, that was pretty early for out here.
Dave:But not to put you on the spot on a percentage, what kind of percentage would you go for the corn and and the Morris area for percent planted? Are you are we talking 50% or higher?
Anthony:I guess I wouldn't be great at estimating that right now. I don't think it's that high, but I'd wanna ask around a little bit more too because there's some fields I've seen planted. I don't know what they had out there, but I've been hearing more about soybeans being planted first before corn. Yeah. That's not the case for everyone, but I think I'm starting to hear about that trend a little bit more among some growers at least.
Anthony:Are are you dry enough a little more on soybeans.
Dave:Are are you dry enough for people to go through this weekend, the first week in May here, the forecast? I don't know. Maybe a lot of brain, but will that will that button things up here, so to speak, in the next five to seven days?
Anthony:From what I've seen on the forecast, like, things are pretty fit right now to plant, especially if you're just getting your tillage done too or having to redo some after that rain. So I think we're sitting okay for now. If we start getting more regular heavier rains, that will definitely slow things down. But I think right now, there's gonna be a lot going on up through this weekend here.
Seth:Just a question about, you know, generalization of farmers in the region. I think of I think of your area as highly variable in terms of soil types and drainage and things. Do you think a lot of farmers farm or the a lot of the larger farmers are big enough that they've got some sandy fields and that they can get in early and then got they have some heavy fields that they can they wait on so they have a little bit more ability to kinda flex and get in early on some of them? Or do you think a lot of folks farm within townships that are all pretty homogenous across their their farms?
Anthony:I think some of these folks are big enough. They definitely have some fields they're gonna wait on just because they're too wet now. But also just if you split up the rough area I'm looking at, again, Morris over to Bruton. Morris, you got heavier ground. You don't see as much irrigation there.
Anthony:And then get over closer to Bruton, that's Bonanza Valley area, irrigation countries. You got sandy soil, and, I'm definitely seeing a range there already where, you know, out here, folks are moving pretty quick over back at Morris area with that heavier ground. Things seem to be going a little slower, but I'm definitely seeing some folks just pushing along still and getting through there. So, yeah, it's definitely different situations across the board, but definitely that variability within townships too for some of these folks.
Dave:You know, we've been talking about corn and soybeans, but let's talk about two other crops growing in the area. Edible beans, they typically go in a little bit later, don't they, in your area? And then I also want you to comment on observations that you have on alfalfa and what that looks like. So let's go to the edible beans part of it.
Anthony:Yeah. So, edible beans, actually, we have a lot of that right around where I live here, and that's yeah. Like you said, not going until a little bit later, but that's one where I've been hearing more and more acres, especially if I get over to Polk County. So just background, I kinda live right on the border of Stearns and Polk County. And a lot more interests getting into, snap beans essentially.
Anthony:So I think there's gonna be pretty big increase in acres around this area this year compared to some previous years. But I haven't heard planting progress on that yet. So they're starting
Dave:May or I mean, we're you you have a Yeah. A level here, don't we, in time?
Anthony:Mhmm. Yeah. So that's kind of the ballpark. Was I was just trying to think about it was yeah. About May is what I ballpark.
Anthony:Maybe up to about June or so is roughly that window we're looking at there. So it's a bit early, but I know folks are are kinda looking at that and thinking about for especially a crop like that. They wanna get some good production out of that and good quality. So, yeah, that's definitely in the mix. But alfalfa Yeah.
Anthony:That's the one I've been working on a lot more lately, especially on the insect side with alfalfa weevil. And How did just looking around. I haven't quite found that yet, but the alfalfa itself is looking pretty good. What I'm seeing, it's greening up. Good.
Anthony:Challenge for us is we didn't have as much snow cover. We've had worse years, so I'm expecting some dieback just from some of those cold snaps we had. But I kinda gotta wait and see and kinda get a final assessment of some of those stands. So I think some might have got hit hard, others probably pulled through fine. So so far, are greening up enough.
Anthony:People should be able to tell pretty quickly here now just how well things are looking overall when they pull out of kinda winter dormancy.
Seth:Well, I think we're gonna move on to Matt, but I will come back to you, Anthony, and ask later about those corn and soybean stands. And so keep an eye on those early, very early planted soybeans and be prepared to report back and just see if we can see any, if if there's any reef plants or thin stands out there, if anybody had any problems, run into any problems with this kind of reversing the corn soybean, planting pattern. So but but thank you very much, Anthony. I really appreciate your update. So how about you, Matt Tell us a little bit about where you're at.
Dave:Yeah. I I really wanna hear from Matt because, you know, there's a certain amount of what are this all bragging rights that goes on in these country coffee shops in Sibley and Lassure County down there and and so forth. So and and some of these people, you know, they they're gonna belly up and write in there and say, well, I'm done, you know, and how about that? I've never been done before May 1. Are you in that that camp?
Dave:And I and I just wanna preface that that Seth and I wanted to really, you know, have our bragging rights. So we actually planted a little bit here on April 13 on Saint Paul campus for our field school on on on soybeans. But I don't know that I think we beat you a little bit there. But by and large, you you you're making good progress. Is that right?
Matt:Well, I wanna say we could probably make farmers out of you too, Dave and Seth. I mean, you'd be do you do all in the the coffee shops. We know that for sure. You'd be a hit there. And, I for those that I've met in the last year with this work with extension, you know, I'm on the crops team.
Matt:I also help with the Institute for Ag Professionals, so I've seen a lot of folks that listen to the program here. And, you're based out of the Mankato office. And, you know, definitely, last but not least here in terms of productivity of the soils we have in Southern Minnesota, their glacial till, their clay loam. It can make them a little bit cumbersome and to work early in the spring, but I think that hasn't stopped people this year. And so I'm kind of a little prep for speaking with you guys.
Matt:Had to look at the USDA crop progress report, last came out on April 26. We're at 25% for corn planted across the state, and I think Southern Minnesota is really carrying the the weight on that, especially after hearing from Angie and Anthony that they're not doing a lot of corn yet, or it's a little bit it's been too cold as you get in the Central And Northern Minnesota. And then soybeans is about 15% planted. Those are well ahead of average, but actually on par with last year. So I wonder if we can already draw some parallels for what's gonna happen next, gentlemen, and that's we've had a dry fall at the end of the year last year.
Matt:We're still somewhat on the drought monitor as we head into Southwest Minnesota. And so we've got powdery loose soils, especially the rolling baskets on our equipment now just really pulverize our soils. We're headed for some crusting. I think, again, it's been cold. It's been wet to start this week here at the to end April.
Matt:We definitely have some of that going on. So depending on who you talk to, we are at least 50% done on corn across the region, field corn that is. Some areas would say 75%. And then soybeans, you could just call it a good rip is in the ground. Right?
Matt:And it brings us bigger question up on how we deal with fields coming out of corn residue because those root balls can be really tricky to deal with. That's it just they've got more life to them. When it's wet, you work them wet, you kinda have a problem then for planter trafficability and bumpiness in the field. So I've heard more and more people go into some strip till and some other no till or low till into corn stocks, whether they're going corn on corn or beans after corn because it's really that corn residue that is really challenging, to deal with this time of the year. So that's the reason we haven't probably seen more beans go in yet.
Matt:Other crops we have in the region, we have a Seneca factory in in in, Glencoe, excuse me, in Montgomery. We have Bird's Eye, Conagra, and Waseca. There's been some peas or sweet peas planted for those. It's a little early yet for sweet corn. It's not as hardy coming out of the ground on these cold temps.
Matt:I would assume if the weather is turns for the favorable, you'll see a bunch of that going in here as we turn the calendar over the month of May. But, otherwise, we've talked a little bit about sugar beets and dry beans are yet to come, but that's sort of where we're at. A lot of corn on the ground, some beans to be dangerous. Again, we're gonna see similar to last year. Basically, what what mother nature presents us, will we get this crop out of the ground in good shape or not?
Seth:And have you seen, have you seen anything poking up out of the ground yet from of that early stuff that went in a couple weeks ago? So mid be April then on the early side after that after Yes.
Dave:So
Matt:Firsthand, Seth. Yep. We've got the hypocotyl arches poking through on soybeans that were planted around that April 13. That was, like, a Monday there. We were back in the field.
Matt:I would say you could even go earlier for areas around Fairmont. They were planting around Easter Monday, which was April 6. And, those sorts of those sorts of crops, they're up. Corn and beans are fully up. So hopefully, they're juvenile enough and and sweet enough and salty enough that they resisted some of these cold temps that we've having.
Matt:I think it was just on the edge, but they should be fine for those early planting.
Seth:Yeah. It'll be it'll be interesting because the, you know, those fields that got planted just, you know, those those very early fields got accumulated quite a few heat units right after planting because we were so warm. So they had some pretty good temperatures. They germ and then start to push up, and then they've things have been creeping along since. But then those fields that just were planted, you know, a week ago, we got germination.
Seth:But it's those things we've, you know, with 30 degree nights and 50 degree days, we both corn and soybeans are gonna be just kinda creeping out of the ground, I assume.
Matt:So when the temperature doesn't crack 50 degrees, do we get just imaginary growing units, or what do we call those? Just wishful ones? Ghost. Zero zilch nada. Right?
Seth:Ghost. Ghost. Ghost degree days.
Dave:But I think, you know, it's both for both of you and Seth and and, you know, a lot of reports, you know, people took advantage of obviously in in some areas where they probably weren't shut out early for planting more soybeans than we've seen in other recent years. You know other years where the weather is holding us out for a number of reasons. But more almost to the south of you where you're farming and in Sibley County and Mankato but on that Southwestern area, Are are we finding growers having almost two planters in this or access to so they're not down one, have they're planting beans and corn one right after the other or have two crews? What's going on there with that type of machinery?
Matt:Well, you see everything. Sometimes people, even if they have more than one planter, they're gonna focus on corn right away for logistic reasons. And again, if you work that bean stubble a little bit too wet, you know, it's a little more forgiving in terms of cloddy and clumpiness that you can deal with. Again, I think it's the corn residue that is that final should we go or should we not and go play around in fields. Right?
Matt:So I think that that's that's all to be in in consideration there. We often, are respecting the forecast. I talked about that a little bit with this morning, for radio. We saw that things stop and really a week ago. You know, there was a forecast for about a inch of rain on a week ago, Thursday, that never really materialized.
Matt:In our area, it did to the east, but planners stopped a day or two ahead of time. And I really think people have learned their lessons about pushing ground. You know, if you're gonna be early, open up ground, give it a full day of sunshine so you have a fit field, and then go plant. And if you don't have that much runway before weather is coming to get you, don't do anything. It's too early to make unforced errors.
Matt:Also, rolling this ground when it's too wet. If you wanna roll your bean ground, don't go out there and do the same thing if it's tacky underneath. You're really just setting yourself up for compaction and crusting issues.
Dave:So What was your rainfall pattern here just recently last this last week? Some places got an inch, some places got two inches, a lot of variability?
Matt:I would say so. I would say if you're, South and East of Mankato, you probably get got about that inch of rain on the red in the river valley. On the west side of the river, we probably got closer to two. I've heard good things about Southwestern Minnesota getting two to three. You can see by the drought monitor, they've stepped that down quite a bit in terms of area and severity of drought in Southwest Minnesota.
Matt:So, yes, I think that was really a blessing of a rain for a lot of the region, and it's not keeping people out of the field. I mean, cultivators will be rolling later today and for sure into the weekend in the Mankato area into the South and East. They're gonna continue to put this crop in. They'll be done with corn by the time the next forecasted rain arrives on Tuesday and to start May
Seth:here. You're not you're not hearing any problems, or you wouldn't think of any problems getting pre's on because the crop's kind of coming up a little bit slow here, even though we people planted right up until the rain, right? That's always my concern, is you plant go hard until the rain and then plan on spring after it dries out, and sometimes things don't dry out very fast.
Matt:Yeah. If you got a group 14 or something in the pre's, you don't wanna be hitting those hypocuttle arches with that, do you, Seth? And I would say, the things that are poking through, again, are that April planted. Right? We had a little rain come through, right on actually the evening of April 13.
Matt:So, yes, something planted to April. We're watching out for emergence. If we have to pull back, I think when we plant early on beans, aren't we thinking about twenty one to thirty days later, we gotta be thinking post anyway. So we'll be coming back before May's out with our post. It'll be early for these early planted beans.
Matt:It'll be interesting to see effectiveness of weed control interacting with planting date again this year as well.
Dave:So if we're talking about the May, the end of the first week in May, South Central Minnesota or southern part of what the area that you're a lot of you're covering will be pretty much done all the way through with both corn and beans. I mean, obviously, there's gonna be, you know, additional acres here or there, but is the that's your projection at least right now?
Matt:Yeah. I would say we'll be completely wrapped up barring a major rain event. And then you've got, you know, you've got canning crops again that'll grow that'll go in any spring planted alfalfa and stuff like that. So, yeah, I think we'll be mostly all tucked in here soon. We will see what what we're we're not out of frost risk yet, of course.
Matt:Still Minnesota. We're still in northern latitude. I've even heard a lot of folks, threatening the rotary hoeing need might need to be occurring again
Dave:That's
Matt:some of our corn acres. And and even people talking about prophylactically going out and doing it because it might help a little bit, you know, a couple thousand in your stand. Right? Just keep it around 33 and not 30. So, anyway, we might be seeing more and more of that.
Matt:Maybe that's a piece of equipment more guys need to own or a few few neighboring farmers wanna share between them, like a roller.
Dave:There's gonna be differences in soil type and in terms of if it's a lighter sandy soil if that plates up or gets that crust. So really you know you can't assume these fields are different by the soil type. If you do need to rotary hoe or something they could easily crust over and there's only so much that soybean hypocotyl arch will push through. So if gonna be a problem, know, it's certainly something to do. But I would emphasize on the pre emergence, we put out a couple of good crop news articles here recently.
Dave:Just keep in mind that if you're not sure, talk to your agronomist, your supplier and so forth. Whatever pre situation so that you don't go over emerged crop if there's a problem with that particular premix or or product, I guess.
Seth:Yeah. Let me throw out one other question I've got. I I don't know how unusual this is, but I think about it seems a little unusual this year that we had a probably two weeks of really above average temperature in the April, and we got a lot done in your area. And then it rained, we basically have at least two full weeks of highs in, like, the fifties and lower sixties. It's it's pretty cool.
Seth:Cold nights. I think this weekend's gonna be a little bit warmer, but it's a little bit unusual to get a crop planted into really good conditions, into warm soils, and then have such a long period of kind of these times that you were mentioning about hardly hardly accumulating growing degree units. So I wonder I wonder if that's gonna play any role in any of these emergence issues or or herbicide or early weed control issues for us.
Dave:Well, possibly can. I guess it comes back, Matt, and for both you and Seth, is the seed treatments and so forth. What was some of the old recommendations? How long can corn be in the ground? Two weeks, maybe pushing three.
Dave:I mean, I don't know what the difference on soybeans, Seth, you know, in in terms of that, but that protection there's in German, that viability. So you have a you have a portion of of a good opportunity here, but not forever.
Seth:That's right. We have yeah. And Bruce Potter and I did quite a bit of work on early planting and seed treatments. And, you know, we were planting early enough that once it took three or more weeks to come out of the ground, we couldn't see any value in seed treatments when things were really extended. Meaning, you know, I think the thought is that we probably were outliving some of the active ingredients in those.
Seth:So there's probably a sweet spot for functionality of those seed treatments is if you get a nice inch of rain right after planting, it kind of washes down in the soil. And then you get pretty decent conditions where they come out of the ground in about two weeks. I think that's probably the sweet spot. If it's warm and the the beans pop right out of the ground, it doesn't do any good. And if it takes three or four weeks to come out, it probably outlives it.
Seth:So we might be in that latter case this year.
Dave:Anything else that we didn't talk about in in your terms of your area there, Matt, or things that you would want to add that we didn't touch on?
Matt:I think we're pretty happy this year. We are set up for decent yield potential. We will continue to monitor emergence dates. You know, we heard from a wise, soybean extension specialist recently, didn't we, Seth, on our some of our season planting calls for strategic farming that it isn't planting date, it's emergence date. So maybe these folks that have held on are gonna plant here to start May, they could be right.
Matt:And some of the folks that started early, they'll be right too. I mean, there is not one way to do this game. And, again, the more risks that you put down on one field on one crop when it comes to adequate drainage, the timing of your preemergence herbicide, how wet you work the ground, and then how wet you planted the ground, and then the rolling, that's all gonna that's all gonna show up again. So we'll have a variability out there. And, hopefully, we'll learn a little bit more about planting soybeans early.
Matt:I know that that's something that folks are getting a lot more comfortable with in recent years.
Seth:Yeah. This year is gonna be a good experiment for a lot of us. I've I've I'm doing some actual early planting management stuff that this year, and we were able to get it in good and early. So we're gonna have results on treatments and biologicals and and how those might affect early planted soybeans. So and then there's all the anecdotal information we're gathering from farmers.
Seth:So it's it's gonna be good good year. So but there's a lot of year left.
Dave:So it's a good opportunity. I don't know. You do some scouting here. Look at your plant stands. I'm sure you've done that before, Matt, and so forth and people in the area.
Dave:You know, did you get what you wanted in out of population or whether there's something else going on, but we'll be doing that next. And then, of course, weeds, common lambsquarters coming up, giant ragweed comes up early. And then that waterhemp, and it doesn't always come up later. Sometimes this waterhemp can actually come up fairly early and just keep coming all the way through August. Know, I have to plan on on dealing with that control.
Dave:So that's about all we've got at
Matt:that Let's circle. Yeah. Let's circle back soon and we'll talk about the weed and crop emergence patterns, gentlemen. This was a lot of fun.
Seth:Okay. Awesome.
Dave:For your Appreciate it. Okay. This has been, Matt Farr, our last guest, from, what I call South Central Minnesota or in Southern Minnesota down that Sibley, their area county area all down to Mankato. I'm your host, Dave Nicolai with University of Minnesota. I'm extension educator in field crops along with my cohost Doctor.
Dave:Seth Nave, University of Minnesota soybean extension specialist. And we appreciate you folks listening in and we'll talk to you next time. Thank you.
