Crops in Greene County continue to hold their own despite lack of rainfall over the past month.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says soil moisture levels are still good enough that both corn and soybeans continue through the maturing process and aren’t showing signs of stress from the lack of rainfall. He describes how corn and soybeans are currently developing.

“We’re starting to see tassels pop out in corn, that’s the reproductive stage, with tassels and silk. We’re really scouting hard for fungicide timing. And then on the soybean side, we’re starting to get more flowers and they’re moving right along at their reproductive stage also. But everything seems to be looking really, really great where we’re sitting right now.”

Minnihan points out that because crops are slightly ahead of where they should typically be, the pollination process is starting early.

“But it’s also pretty good because we’ll have a longer pollination and reproductive window. So that’s where you get some of these, you can weather permitting, get some record yields on corn too.”

He adds that the crops  he’s seen so far are ahead of last year’s pace as far as crop progression.