Many times farmers find the perfect window to get their crops into the ground, but just as your crops are about to emerge, heavy rains come in and help compact soils to create a thick surface crust that hampers emergence. In this video, Pioneer Field Agronomist Gary Brinkman helps provide you with management tips to help overcome thick crusty soils to help your crops emerge. One of the more common solutions involve using a rotary hoe, but seedling damage, especially in soybeans, is unavoidable with this solution. Gary walks you through a few real life examples of farmers who encounter delayed emergence because of a soil crust, and shows where the rotary hoe was effective, and where the soil crust was too thick for a rotary hoe to work, and therefore that field had to be replanted. Gary also shows a field where the farmer used his planter to break up a soil crust, and was a fairly effective solutions as well.
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