An agronomist says many soybean seeds are larger this year and growers might have to make planter adjustments.
Bayer agronomist Nick Weidenbenner tells Brownfield, “Many of these planters have disks or other things that need to be appropriately sized to the soybeans and without the proper planter setting, and if you have larger seed soybeans, you may be increasing the number of skips when planting.”
Weidenbenner covers Illinois and Wisconsin and says soybeans had greater seed fill because of outstanding late-season growing conditions.
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