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A conversation with AgroLiquid’s National Agronomist is helpful to better understand corn stress with a mostly hot and mostly dry July. The calendar rolls to August tomorrow. Many areas of the country, though, have gone through July with minimal or no rain, while at the same time, heat indexes over 110 to 125 degrees.
Stephanie Zelenko is the lead agronomist with AgroLiquid. This week I spoke with her about corn stress nighttime temperatures constantly above 75-78 degrees. Her bottom-line assessment is, we’re not in the danger zone yet, but getting close, and the market appeared to agree with her early week.
This is the bottomline report. Zelenko adds soybeans better equipped to deal with heat, and as we enter August, she sees top yields still very possible.
Audio Reporting by Mark Oppold for Southeast AgNet.