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Crop conditions vary for NW Wisconsin farmer

A farmer in northwestern Wisconsin is seeing wide variations in his crops, depending on when he was able to plant.

Jerry Morfoot raises corn, soybeans, and hay near Cornell, and tells Brownfield the wet spring affected planting dates, and he can see the impact now. “Some of the earlier planted beans look much better than the later-planted. Corn, we kind of hit that pretty good but we still had areas that was too wet.”

Morfoot says there’s a lot of clay in his area, so the frequent spring rains caused planting delays and he’s expecting less in the bin this fall. “Overall yields we know are going to be down because of that. In the later planted beans, the same thing, big drowned out areas.”

He says with yields down and input prices where they are, he can’t believe 2024’s grain prices are the same as his father received in the 1980s.