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If crop color remains poor even after a week of drying soils and good growing conditions, then it is possible that N movement to below the rooting depth is affecting the ability of the crop to grow out of this problem.

An early May storm that soaked Paulding County cleared up nearly a day ago, and the drains buried beneath Terry McClures farm fields are doing their job. The white plastic pipe that funnels water into a ditch along County Road 48 helps keep the 4,000 acres of soft, red winter wheat from becoming a swamp.

Eco Agro Resources is proud to announce its formation and launch on May 1, 2013. Eco Agro Resources is an agriculture and chemical producer and marketer of the next generation of urease inhibitor and patent pending flagship product, N-YieldTM. "Eco Agro Resources is made up of 30 team members with over 100 years of agriculture and chemical experience," says CEO David McKnight. "We have multiple lab and manufacturing locations with a home base in High Point, N.C."

With the variation in conditions we have seen this spring there are a few issues that may show up in fields related to cool and wet soils. Purpling of corn leaves due to phosphorus (P) deficiency and early season interveinal striping due to sulfur (S) may occur if temperatures remain cool and we continue to have frequent rains.