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Originally Posted by Chad126

Not me. I literally wear a respirator and waders when I apply it. I know that I've said that before, and it probably made me look like a nancy, but I'm not taking chances with something that at one point was believed to have been a carcinogen. Perhaps it is in fact harmless. Either way, it isn't going to harm me because I'm cautious around it.

But I respectfully disagree with the humidity topic. I just can't see it causing that much of an impact. But I'm not horticulturist, nor am I a meteorologist.

This topic originally appeared in Washington post and USA today. If you google it you can read what some people think about it. They say the humidity rise could be as much as 7% higher than normal. They also go on to say that without the humidity and the corn sweat temps would be higher. Not the dew point but the actual temp. Not all of the humidity is due to corn they say. Much of it can be related to flooded fields from rain as well. For any of this to matter you need abnormally high temps to begin with in order to make the corn sweat which from my understanding, it has been unusually warm in the Midwest so far this season. If the temps were lower or on par with the average temps the evapotranspiration would be a lot less noticeable.

By the way. This was originally posted on USA today in 2016.. Not this year.