Entries by Peter Starman

Agronomic Update – May 9, 2020….Brrr….

2020 continues to be full of surprises…many of the ‘not-so-great’ kind.   We are officially in a freeze warning for the next couple of nights.   What will exactly occur from this, one can not be certain…however, I have included a nice summary from our area Pioneer agronomist, Kevin Kowalski, on what to possibly expect….and what to […]

Agronomic Update – May 3, 2020 Pioneer, we have….emergence!

Pioneer, we have….emergence!   First planted corn is starting to emerge.   Here are a couple of photos from a plot planted April 21st.   The first photo shows a newly emerged plant on P1366AML and the second photo shows our emergence trial.  The flags represent emerged plants.  We will be checking this plot each day and flagging […]

Agronomic Update – April 30, 2020

Short video on what is currently going on in our fields.   The video is from the evening of April 30th, so does not reflect the heat of today.  Overall, things are looking good on corn germination, etc.  GDU accumulation as of April 30th is 104 GDU’s for an April 21st planting date and 77 GDU’s […]

Agronomic Update – April 14, 2020

  Needless to say, we are living in some interesting and challenging times, as we live out Quarantine Day #!?!?….a little humor to get started….. I’m sure we can all relate to this comic strip….especially those who have children in the house ALL DAY….. We hope and pray that everyone is doing well, staying healthy […]