Despite warmer than average temperatures in June, corn and soybeans continue to thrive during the growing season.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says the crops were showing some signs of stagnation coming out of a wet and cool early spring to a very hot and dry late spring.

“But this seed actually helped it kind of get going a little bit. It was a little longer stretch than we like to see but real similar to what we had last year too. It was hot right around Bell Tower Festival, but it’s actually helping out gather some of those heat units and let the crop kind of take off too.”

Minnihan points out during the recent hot days when there wasn’t any rainfall, the crops were still able to find moisture.

“There’s adequate moisture still underneath as dry as it was. If you dig down just a couple, six, eight or ten inches, there was still good moisture in our soil. So these roots are getting down to those nutrient lines and bands of nutrients and starting to really take off and green back up.”

Minnihan expects both corn and soybeans to grow quickly, especially now that Greene County received about an inch of rainfall this week.