Sept. 30, 2022 Edition
“If you’re looking to modify a fertility program to achieve higher yield output, just realize that it takes the soil 3-4 years to fully adapt to those nutrient changes.” – David Sass, Pioneer Field Agronomist in the Pacific Northwest To help emphasize this point, we could iterate that crop yields three to four years in the future will be influenced by our management practices being employed today. If you have conducted some tissue tests and/or expanded soil testing in some higher production fields to push productivity, understand that it takes time for significant fertilizer applications to be absorbed by the soil. The patience we must display in agriculture can be frustrating at times, but usually the long-term rewards for enhanced management are well worth the wait. Weather Well, the weather to date has been tolerable with many above average days lately and most operations finding a steady rhythm to this season’s harvest. We’ve had the usual array of weather events,