On a Tuesday drive from Fort Wayne to Lafayette to just past Champaign, Illinois Kent Stickler took a good look at farm fields along the way, and he liked what he saw. Stickler is an Indiana district manager for BASF and was headed to their field day Illinois.
“The crop in general as I came across there, although we had multiple different planning dates with some of the early, wet weather then turned off a little bit dry, and there are a lot of different planting dates, but what I saw is a crop with a tremendous amount of potential,” he told HAT. “Yeah it’s in different stages, but the yield potential is there, we just have to keep an eye on it.”
Stickler wants to see growers reach that potential, and they will if they make the right in-season management decisions…