June in the field, making real time evaluations that optimize yield.

Welcome back to the EzAg podcast, where innovative farming meets practical solutions. I’m your host, Matt Long, and today we’re gonna dig into what June looks like in the field and how real time scouting and smart adjustments can help you optimize your Max Yield System for the season ahead. We’ve talked a lot this year about how success starts with early planning, but June is when your field starts talking back, and if you’re not out there listening, walking, checking, scouting, you’re missing critical opportunities to course correct and fine tune your Max Yield System. 

So let’s talk about how to scout smarter, how to react when the crop speaks, and how to use tools like BW Fusions, Full Sun, Amino, and Relax Rx, which can help you turn your Max Yield System plan into Max Yield System results. June is not just about hoping your crop takes off, it’s a turning point. The crop is transitioning from vegetative growth into yield setting mode, and the management decisions you make this month can either push potential forward or quietly hold it back. You can’t afford to be passive in June. You’ve got to be out in your field, asking three big questions:

1. Did we hit our planting goals? 
2. Where can we enhance or protect yield right now? 
3. What threats are coming that we can prevent?

Let’s unpack that. You probably already did a basic stand count, but in June it’s time to go deeper and evaluate your net effective plant stand. Evaluate your stand. Is emergence uniform across rows and plants? Are there skips and doubles that impact your spacing? Are the rump plants that won’t compete? This is your first big checkpoint. The uniformity of your stand is a leading indicator of how much potential you’re really working with, not just your target population, and any PS number helps guide your nutrient and irrigation strategies. There’s no use pushing hard on a poor stand, but on good ground with solid emergence, it’s go time. 

Next, you’ve got to read the crop leaf by leaf. You should be looking for paler streaked leaves, which would indicate possible nitrogen or sulfur deficiencies. Burned edges or twisted whirls, which could be herbicide or environmental stress. Uneven height and vigor that come from compaction, sidewall issues, or early disease or insect feeding, particularly doing ratworm digs, looking for cutworm or armyworm damage. June is about scouting, being proactive, not reactive. If you wait until you see yield loss, it’s already too late. Once you see what’s happening in the field, use that intel to adjust your Max Yield System plan. Here’s where BW Fusions tools come in. Full Sun is your go to for driving photosynthetic energy. It gives the crop what it needs to accelerate vegetative growth and boost sugar production, especially important as the canopy begins to close. AmiNo helps with stress recovery and nutrient delivery. If your crop has been through wind, heat, or herbicide stress, this is a product that helps it bounce back stronger. Not just survive and Relax Rx, it’s our shield during critical herbicide application windows. If you’re making post passes around V5 to V10, the corn is working hard to determine its maximum ear size. Don’t rob energy with a hot herbicide pass. Pair it with Relax Rx to keep the crop calm and focused on yield. These aren’t just rescue tools, they’re optimization tools. They allow you to respond to real time conditions in the field without derailing your overall plan. 

This is also the month to start building your nutrition roadmap for July. Tissue sampling, when combined with your infield observations, helps you get ahead of hidden deficiencies that don’t show up visually until it’s too late. And while you’re at it, get in those test plots. Walk your hybrids. Take notes on vigor, disease tolerance, early root development. The more you observe now, the better decisions you’ll make in July and August when you start developing your Max Yield System plan for 2026. 

Let’s bring this home. June is where planting and planning meet execution. It’s the part of the Max Yield System where you take what you planned six months ago, hold it up against what the field is telling you, and make small intentional adjustments to bring it all together. That might mean tweaking your fertility approach, tightening up your weed control program, or adding a full layer pass that helps your corn stay on pace for maximum yield. 

Remember, if you’re not measuring, you’re really just guessing. And in a year when every dollar counts, that’s a risk you can’t afford. So over the next couple of weeks, take your scouting seriously, use the tools available, trust your observations, and keep refining your Max Yield System plan. 

Thanks for tuning in to this episode of the Ez Ag podcast. If you’re walking fields this week, we’d love to see what you’re seeing. Send us a pic and your thoughts or reach out and tag us online with your questions and insights. Until next time, remember, Ag is easy when you tune into the Ez Ag podcast. That’s all for today. I’m Matt Long. Grow your yield, grow your legacy, grow strong with Axis Seed.