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Southern Kansas grower says September rainfall helped improve crop and farmer mentality

Wednesday, October 2

A farmer in south-central Kansas says much-needed September rain helped improve his double crop beans. Rick Schlender tells Brownfield… “We may have better double crop beans than full season beans on some of the dryland,” says. “Irrigated wise, I don’t know, we weren’t affected...

Scattered rains helped crops but slowed Wisconsin’s farmers

Tuesday, September 3

The scattered rains were welcome in Wisconsin last week, but they hampered fieldwork. USDA reporters say there were almost five days suitable for fieldwork, and topsoil moisture levels are rated as 12% surplus, 72% adequate, and 14% short. Eighty-two percent of Wisconsin’s corn is...

August rains helped MO soybean crop

Tuesday, September 3

A central-Missouri farmer says the August weather was good for the soybean crop. Nathan Alpers tells Brownfield rains were timely. “You want a state fair rain out and we got a rain then. Another inch of rain would be great to finish up some...

Nebraska farmer says July rains helped his corn, soybeans

Monday, August 5

Recent rains have helped Nebraska crop conditions. Doug Saathoff, who farms in the south-central part of the state, tells Brownfield… “We’re looking really good,” he says. “Of course we had quite a bit of rain up to about the first week of July and...