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Missouri farmer completes planting this week

A central Missouri farmer says the wet spring has caused planting setbacks.

Russell Wolf tells Brownfield he wrapped up planting this week.

“Beans should have been finished up a month ago, probably, so we’re a month behind on our beans,” he says. “Our corn was a little bit late, but it’s coming along alright.”

Now it’s time to focus on crop development.

“We’ll be scouting our fields, of course, looking to see if we have to do any replant,” he says. “I will follow up with insects, watching them and spraying accordingly, keeping the weeds down.”

He says heavy rains this week could force him to replant fields.

AUDIO: Russell Wolf