AUDIO: John Mays – Central Life Sciences
A senior director with Central Life Sciences says the sluggish ag economy has most farmers exploring any means possible to protect the investment they’ve made into their crops.
John Mays says it’s important to remember that crop risk doesn’t end once it’s harvested.
“When you look at all the pests that are trying to eat the crop that you’ve spent your whole year trying to make, they can do a ton of damage and take money right out of your pocketbook,” he says.
He tells Brownfield that shifting weather patterns seem to be favoring the insects and bringing more of the Midwest under threat of damage to stored grain.
“It wasn’t that long ago that folks in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Iowa, they never thought about having bugs in their grain.” He says, “I can tell you that the number of calls that we received in the last two years from growers in just those four states, I mean, it’s in the hundreds and growers need to be mindful of it.”
Mays says producers should clean bins as thoroughly as possible between crops and explore insecticides that can be applied to the bins and grain itself.
