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Continued rains create mixed crop outlook

Crop conditions are mixed as the growing season continues in Missouri, likely due to the continued rains across the state.

“We don’t get but two or three days of dry time and we’ll get rain again,” says Russell Wolf.

The Moniteau County farmer tells Brownfield he still has soybeans to plant and has had to replant corn already.

“If it dries up enough where I can get back in the field, it’s mostly terrace channels” he says. “If I can get back in there and do it, I’ll do it. But if the weather doesn’t cooperate, it’ll just have to be what it is.”

Garrett Riekhof in Lafayette County says there’s been rain every week this spring; the corn and soybeans don’t like it, and yield is being impacted.

“Really any field you pick, there’s going to be any given area in that field where that yield monitor is going to read zero,” he says. “There are just areas, whether it’s a half acre, quarter acre, or three acres, five acres, there’s going to be areas that are going to be zero just because we couldn’t get a stand there.”

USDA says Missouri’s corn is rated 63 percent good to excellent, a slight decline from the previous week.

Soybeans, cotton and rice all had a slight improvement in condition ratings, now rated 59 and 82 percent good to excellent, respectively.

Hear Brownfield’s interview with Garrett Riekhof.

Hear Brownfield’s interview with Russell Wolf.