Farming Video | Can This Spring’s Weather Set Back Your Corn?

4 Jun 25 • 1m 16s

Kelly Garrett from XtremeAg talks about the pressure a cool, wet spring is putting on early corn in his fields. Root development is sluggish, and disease threats are growing. With these challenging conditions, Kelly shares why soil health and erosion control matter more than ever. He’s running a new trial to see if extra protection can help offset the stress and boost stand success.

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00:00:00 Hi, this is Kelly Gear from Extreme Ag. We're out here at some of our early planted corn. Uh, the weather's not what I expected this year. 00:00:08 Uh, the heat will come sometime, but you know, we're standing here, uh, at the end of May. It's after Memorial Day, not quite the 1st of June. 00:00:15 I've got long sleeves on, I've got sleeves on, period. The high. Today's about 58. Uh, we've been getting some rain here 00:00:22 for the last, uh, few days. Not a tremendous amount of rain, but it has been damp, cold and damp, which isn't great for the root development. 00:00:30 And with the fusarium and pythium that are in our soils, there is some concern about the effect 00:00:37 of those diseases being even more pronounced this year with the Ethos Elite trial we have from FMC. I'm excited to see will that hold off 00:00:45 to Fusarium Pythium one of my, uh, biggest challenges here. You know, I talk about the base saturation of the soil 00:00:52 and things like that, and I talk about the hills, the conservation, you know, the, a erosion control we try to make, but it's the diseases in the soil 00:00:59 that really offer a big challenge. Fusarium Pythium, like I've talked about many times, will Ethos Elite help offer us more protection than 00:01:07 what we're used to, especially when we have a challenging 00:01:09.715 --> 00:01:10.755

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