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Warm nights increase 2024 crop stress

Jul 9, 2024
Jul 9, 2024

Soybean and corn fields — Soybean and corn planted on June 4 in a photo taken June 20 at 4 p.m. Corn is at stage V4. Soybean stage ranges from VC to V2.
Photo courtesy University of Illinois

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Editor’s note: The following was written by Emerson Nafziger and Giovani Preza Fontes with the University of Illinois Department of Crop Sciences for the farmdoc CropCentral website June 21.

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