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Planting challenges are forcing some growers to inter-seed soybeans.

Dekalb/Asgrow agronomist Harmon Wilts covers southwest Minnesota and says weather delays have slowed fieldwork this spring.

He tells Brownfield farmers who did not wait for suitable conditions are seeing emergence problems.

“In soybeans, we can do something we call interseeding.  If you have a few less plants out there than what you want to, we can go right back in there with the planter and just move over six inches from the row and inter-seed some additional seed in there.”

Wilts says growers should aim for a minimum of 130,000 plants per acre.

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