In his travels around the province, the President of Western Ag Professional Agronomy Ken Greer has noticed that crops, and by extension fields, aren’t performing as expected.

Reduced yields may have left farmers not only disappointed, but possibly wondering what went wrong. The obvious culprit this year has been hot and dry conditions in July and August after a wet June.

But there are other times when other factors interfere with yields, from the amount of nitrogen and other nutrients in the soil to the type of soil a farmer deals with. Greer dives into the problem and how to go about addressing it with 620 CKRM AgriNews Director Ryan Young: