July is finishing with roughly a quarter of its normal rainfall, and DEKALB/Asgrow technical agronomist Lance Tarochione says both corn and soybeans are showing the strain. He says the region needed the opposite of what it got this year — a dry June and a wet July — after June rainfall came in at two to four times the norm.
Lance Tarochione joined WGIL’s Ag Talk on Saturday, Aug. 1. Listen to the full episode above.
He talked about:
- Why July is closing out at about 25% of normal rainfall, and what a wet June cost the crop
- Why hot nights hurt yield potential more than hot days
- Crown rot showing up in corn and soybeans after a saturated, oxygen-starved June
- His election to the Illinois Soybean Association board of directors
- A preview of the Aug. 6 Crop Physiology Field Day at the University of Illinois South Farms
- A packed week that included hosting Dr. Fred Below on his “Ask the Agronomist” YouTube program