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Farmers will likely face busy spring, anhydrous challenges

Asgrow/DEKALB Agronomist Dave Colbert says last fall’s wet conditions and delayed harvest will make for a very busy spring season.

“A lot of growers did not get tillage done and I think the spring is going to be compressed on getting tillage done, getting nitrogen on, and in some cases we harvested crops in some pretty wet conditions and we have some ruts out there,” he says.

He tells Brownfield the conditions also prevented farmers from making fall applications of anhydrous ammonia, which could cause challenges this spring.  

“It’s going to put a higher demand on spring nitrogen particularly anhydrous,” he says. “So, a grower that would normally put 100 percent of his anhydrous on in the spring may find himself putting some on now and then coming back and sidedressing some.”

Colbert says growers should have a backup plan and contact their retailers.

Audio: Dave Colbert, Asgrow/DEKALB