Frost, crop residue causing emergence issues for some crops

A South-Central Nebraska farmer says the effects of drought and an early frost made him replant some soybeans.

Doug Saathoff tells Brownfield freezing temperatures hit a large portion of the state. “I had a thin stand to begin with.  I had a few that froze off that made the stand even thinner.  I replanted about 100 acres.  I did some for the neighbor. I did about 40 acres.  He had the same situation.” 

And, he says, crop residue had trouble decaying because of extended dryness.

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