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Listen to Tom Hoverstad Scientist at the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca discuss our May weather, a month of the extreme!

[Listen] Tom Hoverstad SROC No Rain and Soil Applied Herbicides Jerry Groskreutz using his 4430 and sprayer to stay ahead of the weeds . Jerry Groskreutz/Townsquare Media Due to the really dry spring there was a lot of concern about how the soil applied group 15 herbicides would perform this year. Many farmers spray the group 15 herbicides over the top of the soil soon after planting. They work the best when you get a rain shortly after application to get them in the soil. The last few years this has worked really week because we have had fairly frequent rains. This spring we went 3 or 4 week...

Weekly Weather and Crop Update From SROC Jerry Groskreutz using his 4430 and sprayer to stay ahead of the weeds . Jerry Groskreutz/Townsquare Media The Weekly Weather and Crop Update from the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca (SROC) showed this was the seventh week in a row drier than normal. Tom Hoverstad who is a Scientist at SROC keeps track of the data from their official weather station. I guess I did not need to see the official records to know it was dry again this week. Rainfall totaled only .05 inch and that was .85 inch below normal. At SROC they have not accumulated o...

Tom Hoverstad Scientist at the Southern Research and Outreach Center at Waseca (SROC) has been very busy during the "winter meeting season" talking about controlling waterhemp. There was no travel time involved because most if not all were on Zoom because of COVID. One of Tom's major responsibilities is the herbicide trials and controlling one tough weed, waterhemp. Tom said his discussions centered around two points, controlling waterhemp with the tools we have available now and making sure you do not let any waterhemp go to seed in corn. On the first point there is no new chemistry or "magi...

We were enjoying a very nice winter until the other shoe dropped in February. The meteorological Winter is December, January and February. The first two months averaged 5 degrees above normal. Then February was 11 degrees below normal. So, the meteorological winter of 2021 averaged right on normal! During those two cold weeks in February we came very close to setting a record for days never getting above zero. We were at 5 days and the sixth day the high temperature was just above zero. The all time record for days not getting above zero was six days and that was in 1930. The average temperat...