Farmers are busy checking fields and monitoring crop emergence.
Crops Extension Specialist Sherri Roberts says producers should be doing plant counts before the crop gets too thick and its hard to count the individual plants.
"By doing those plant counts, you see where there's gaps in the field. Geez, do I have a disease or maybe some cutworms. You start digging around and looking, and you find those little buggers or maybe the wireworms are doing it."
She notes if farmers use a seed treatment doing plant counts can also help determine just how effective that seed treatment was, or if there's an underlying disease issue where you should send plants away for further testing.