Shelby Weckel
Soy Envoy
shelby@ehlerbros.com

Shelby Weckel
Soy Envoy
shelby@ehlerbros.com

SHELBY WECKEL UPDATES

Region 5 | May 24, 2024 | Champaign

Shelby Weckel
shelby@ehlerbros.com

Caption: Radar image on 5/24 at around 1:30pm
Caption: standing water after 1-3+” of rain.
Caption: Blanket of waterhemp
SYNOPSIS

Well, I wrote this on Thursday night and lost what I had written. I had not made it back, and what I had written last night was completely different. We were off to the races with a lot of growers finishing up, planting in mild to ideal conditions after the rain last week. Today, we got slammed with a huge rain, and more on the way.

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES CURRENT CONDITIONS IN THIS COUNTY?
Severely Wet (ground is saturated, standing water is abundant, flooding may be present)
WEATHER

A beautiful week to make progress in the field. It was fairly warm, but this helped dry the soils out and allowed a lot of growers to put a lot of crop in the ground.

PRECIPITATION

As of 2:50 pm on Friday we had received 1.25″ in Flatville in one hour. Reports of 3 or more inches in areas. My dad was planting a field when the rainstorm built and after his drive back to the farm, he said to me, “I have never driven a tractor through so much standing water on the roads.”

FIELD/SOIL CONDITIONS

Field conditions were mild to “ideal”. I put the word ideal in quotations because it has been hard to find and ideal soil condition to plant with all the rain we have received. Growers have been working in stages to get fields done where they can. Now, there are ponds in fields, that I hope can get away quickly.

SOYBEAN GROWTH STAGE

Soybeans that were planted a week ago are emerging within a week and off to the races.

CORN GROWTH STAGE

Corn that was planted a week ago is emerging within a week and is off to the races.

INSECTS

Black Cutworms are being reported and cutting could be significant with the flights we had. Be diligent on scouting your field. Fields that had been weedy as well as fields neighboring weedy fields could be culprits. Scout during emergence until V4 depending on instar stage of cutworm.

WEEDS

WATERHEMP is the story once again. This weed is going to get out of control in a hurry, now with the rain we have received. I have seen corn and soybean fields that have blankets of 2-3+” tall waterhemp. And now we cannot put sprayers in those fields for a time period.

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