In this week’s MN CropCast, Seth Naeve and David Nicolai welcomed University of Minnesota Extension Specialists; Dr. Jeff Coulter and Dr. Dean Malvick. Coulter is an Extension Corn Specialist and Malvick is an Extension Plant Pathologist specialist for corn and soybeans. These state specialists discussed the selection criteria for growers to consider when choosing their 2024 corn and soybean seeds. While crop yield data from multiple sites in 2024 is extremely important, yield stability over time and environments is essential in the selection process. Dr’s Coulter and Malvick also provided advice on 2024 agronomic selection criteria when ordering corn and soybean seed such as corn standability, tolerance to diseases and drought plus other agronomic factors along with soybean disease resistance, iron chlorosis and SCN tolerance. Both specialists emphasized that knowing individual field histories which detail past disease occurrences, crop rotations, fertility, soil types and yields is critical in making final variety selections.

Please join us for another lively Minnesota CropCast.