Across the northern Great Plains and Canadian Prairies, weather patterns have ranged from too dry to too wet. For the too wet parts, excessive spring and summer rainfall has resulted in extensive stretches of unplanted (Prevented Planting) acres or drown-out acres. As people think about the fall soil sampling season ahead, we are starting to […]
Producers in the northern Great Plains and upper Midwest need to consider the risk of fallow syndrome in their crop nutrition plans. You are probably asking, what is “fallow syndrome” and why should I care? After all, summer fallow is not that common anymore! But the greater number of Prevented Planting acres in 2019 and […]
In 2020, there are again widespread acres of Prevented Planting (PP) in North Dakota and northwest Minnesota. Farmers are now making plans to plant cover crops on unplanted cropland in the next few weeks. It is important to establish cover crops on PP fields because growing plants help reduce the chance these fields will be […]