Northeast Texas grain farmers have been hustling to finish fungicide applications and to side-dress corn between recent rain showers, according to Southwest Farm Press. Those rains have also prevented farmers from planting.
“I planted 190 acres of corn,” said Grayson County farmer Eric Akins. “I had planned on 2,900.”
As for those unplanted acres, he will put in a crop to keep weeds from taking over. He’s considering cow peas.
“That should put a little nitrogen into the soil,” Akins said. “I’ll let them mature and then plow them in.”
While recent rains provided deep soil moisture, for now farmers need a few clear days to work the fields to get wheat finished and corn side-dressed.