An agronomist with the Great Lakes Grain division of Agris cooperative believes a lot of Chatham-Kent corn fields will end up with record crops this year.
That's because conditions have been almost perfect since a cool wet spring, but Dale Cowan says recent cool nights are slowing the growth of soybeans.
"It's not a big concern that was planted on time, but certainly for soybeans cool night time temperatures gives it the idea it that maybe it should start to mature, we need some warm night time temperatures for the beans to finish well," he says.
Cowan says however in Essex the crops still haven't completely recovered from the wet spring. "Delayed planting, wet soils soil compaction that occurred during planting and sometimes you just get too much water and it overwhelms the root zone."
Cowan has never seen a year when farmers were simply not able to plant as many acres as this year in Essex.
