Short-term and yearly management results can be monitored during “lay-by” time to determine trends. (NDSU PHOTO).
When I grew up, we still did a lot of weed control of our row crops with cultivation. I spent a lot of hot summer days watching soybeans flow between the row spacings of a cultivator. Once the crop’s canopy had closed, we were done with cultivation for the year, and we were just waiting for the crop to mature and harvest. This was “lay-by” time — the spring planting push had eased up, a...