Like a lot of areas of Indiana, the north-central section needs some rain to keep the corn and soybean crops moving in the right direction. In a Channel Seed growing season update, planting dates are dictating progress for these mid-July fields.
“Stuff planted early is pretty well into development stages and stuff that got planted a month, month and a half later is still trying to catch up,” says Len Smith, Channel Seed Sales Agronomist. “As a whole though I think there’s a really nice crop out here.”
Smith saw fields starting to throw tassels last week, and he expects a lot of full tassel will be visible in the next week.
“With the heat that we’ve had, GDU’s are going to grow rapidly and we’re going to have a lot of development in this crop with everything that’s kind of set itself up. We’ve had some moisture, now obviously we’ve got the heat, so I would say as a whole corn looks pretty good and there’s not a lot of concern I’ve got out there right now.”
He has been in just two fields that have tar spot present, so Smith recommends consistent scouting so that you know what you have and can make fungicide applications at the right time.
The soybean crop is also progressing at varied stages in north-central Indiana.
“Beans I’ve seen anywhere from R1 to R3,” he told HAT. “There’s a handful of fields that again, planted them at the end of May, 1st of June that are just trying to close the row, so again pretty wide variance in growth stages, but as a whole the stuff that was planted early looks really, really nice. The same thing though, we get into next week and get a couple of rain showers, the soybean crop is going to change dramatically.”
For both crops, Smith says come 2026 harvest time, “the potential appears to be good, but I think the expectation needs to be set that it may be a long harvest.”
Hear the full interview here:
