Tyler Homann

6:30 am Perry County Air Temp= 32 Surface Temp= 33.6 Soil Temp 2in= 36.6 Wheat head upper canopy= 32.1-33.2 Wheat head lower canopy= 33.8-34.1 Bean plant= 34.5 Corn plant= 34.7 30 min later temps were climbing fast Plant temps seem to be somewhere between soil and air temp

Developing Hybrids that perform above avg in 150 and below yield level parts of fields maybe the most important thing we can do for a SIL farmer. Here’s a tough piece we purposely put a plot on and some @StoneSeedIL hybrids that don’t fall off when the going gets rough.

Got a couple of grower pics today of @StoneSeedIL OLD School (but NEW) Long ear FLEXY hybrids 6622RIB and DG6482RIB winning the hearts of growers in Jefferson and Hamilton counties today. They carry 60+ TW and good stalk health too. TOUGHER than the REST & FLEXIER than the BEST!

Endless info can be drawn from this little experiment we planted back in Late May. Small scale but very precise & teaching us a lot about hybrids & their stalk/ear response from ultra low to ultra high population. Very diff response in hybrids but notice HUGE response to V5 N!

#rootdigs in Saint Clair County in SIL???Not looking for rootworm here! Just trying to put the puzzle pieces together on understanding our new @StoneSeedIL hybrids. Always interesting what roots tell you about the hybrid. It all starts there!

@FieldView making it real easy to help understand #realYield potential out there in these variable fields. Associating field health imagery with geo-referenced pins/pics helps gauge what harvest may be like. That is priceless! Will be a lot of wild swings on yield monitors too...

NEW @StoneSeedIL DG6382RIB figures to pack a lot of top end for SIL with 20+ girth in large % of ears. But I was impressed today with how well it handled stress. Very little Rainfall in this Washington county plot in the month of July. Top End + Stress tolerance..🌽@felecia12574

More #southernrust in SIL. This time in Hamilton County. R1 to V10 corn. Incidence still low but worse in R1 corn than V10. Present in 4 of 8 fields scouted on one farm. @Randy_cornguy @Bayer_S_IL @CP_Peddler @bethany_grabow @CMacDavis

Monsoon this weekend has Lots of SIL corn lacking N and O2. Remember what corn plants are trying to accomplish around V5 (kernels around). Lack of root structure and N will be the limiting factor for 2019 corn. 50-100lb of N made available to seedling corn will pay big 💵 in 2019

Finally got our TWIN row plot planter going in Jasper county this evening. @StoneSeedIL High Yield Management. #NARROWrows #IncreasePOP #NitrogenManagement #Fungicide Multiple row spacings Multiple pops Multiple Hybrids all on @FieldView @PalsDustin @jamesAferris @EricB953

BIG watchout on SIL/CIL corn planted b4 all this rain now VE-V2. Looks like stands will be near 100% BUT not all seedlings are created equal...finding lots of plants w/dead & dying Radicle. Plants w/ NO primary root system will Survive but struggle to yield. Tough decisions ahead