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Factors farmers may want to consider for replanting

An agronomist says there are several factors that farmers should consider before replanting after this year’s excessive rainfall.

Trey Stephens with Beck’s Hybrids covers southeast Nebraska and says standing water in fields can become problematic. “(If) those plants are under ponding water from 24 to 48 hours oxygen begins to decrease, and you just start to run into some issues there. As soon as they dry out, see what your stand looks like and let’s try and get back in there and see if we need to replant.”

He tells Brownfield some crops haven’t emerged yet after they were planted a month ago and recent moisture may not help. “We need to be digging and just making sure if there’s there was seed there, most likely it’s going to be mushy, rotten, it’s maybe started leafing out underground or those leaves started turning yellow. You really want to find hard, white mesocotyl and coleoptile.”

Stephens says corn impacted by hail should grow out of any damage, but soybeans will likely need to be replanted if they suffered extensive damage.

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