On Friday, June 20, Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service experts and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, with sponsorship from the Indiana Corn Marketing Council and the Indiana Soybean Alliance, joined forces to assist farmers with technical assistance relating to the recent floods. The group hosted a call-in forum to provide technical assistance to crop farmers. Technical advice focused on recovering and replanting flooded fields. For farmers who were unable to be on the call, a complete recording of the call-in forum can be found at www.emergency.in.gov/agriculture.

Lt. Governor Becky Skillman opened the call with the state's perspective and relief efforts to date. This was followed by technical advice to farmers from a panel of Purdue Extension Specialists including Bob Nielsen (corn and sorghum), Ellsworth Christmas (soybeans and wheat), Keith Johnson (forages), Greg Shaner (disease management), Bill Johnson (weeds and herbicides), and Tony Vyn (tillage management), as well as Bruce Erickson and Chuck Hibberd also with Purdue University. Advice was targeted to those farmers intending to replant flooded fields this crop year.

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Purdue experts and ISDA offer advice to farmers intending to replant