 After a week of good weather, most areas are now catching up to the 30-year averages for GDU accumulation. With a good week behind us and a warm 10-day forecast, we'll see early planted corn shooting tassels before too long. Soybeans are flowering and many are close to reaching canopy closure, which means the next couple weeks will be critical in monitoring potential for white mold. Senescing flowers are the main point of infection for white mold.