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An incredibly rainy start to the year has caused issues to some crops locally.
Despite another week of rainy conditions, which left an average of just over three days suitable for field work, Iowa farmers have more corn and soybeans in the ground than this time last year.
The Midwest saying goes “knee high by the fourth of July.” It’s target for corn farmers, hoping their crop has grown to knee height by Independence day. June was a very rainy month though ...
MOULTON, Iowa — One Appanoose County farmer said he had to delay planting his corn and soybeans due to the muddy conditions on his farm. Moulton farmer Rex Harris has grown corn and soybeans for ...
From potatoes to corn, some Massachusetts farmers are dealing with the effects of a rainy summer that has impacted their prime growing and harvesting season.
In Phillips County, Reed Storey said he and his father had about 950 idled corn acres. He, like Morgan in Lawrence County, had to deal with rutted fields from the fall.
Heartbroken farmers where I live in Illinois can't remember a worse year for planting corn. It is a financial disaster but also an emotional one.
BATTLE GROUND, Ind.— Although persistent spring rain has caused strain on Indiana's field corn production, don't count sweet corn season out. Stephen Okos, farmer for Prairie View Farms Produce ...
Only one day last week was suitable for Iowa farmers to work in their fields and this week may end up being a complete bust due to continued rain. Angie Rieck Hinz, an Iowa State University ...
In northeast Colorado, many acres of field corn were not yet fully planted this week, according to farmers, despite the May 25 deadline to qualify for full coverage under federally sponsored crop ...
With only 5 percent of the corn crop planted so far this year, compared with a trailing five-year average of 31 percent, prices rose the most in 10 months Monday, according to Bloomberg. Tuesday ...
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- It's no secret that it's been a cool, rainy spring. But where most of us see wet ground, some Minnesota farmers see reduced yields. Minnesota corn farmers want to see healthy ...