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Missouri farmer not harvesting yet

A Missouri farmer says this growing season has been a struggle but it could have been worse. Adam Casner says they haven’t started corn harvest yet but they did get corn planted on time.

“By the time we finished with corn, it started raining. We were about a month late getting our beans put in. It just rained all summer long. And, then, we got here – coming down the home stretch with everything and it turned off hot and dry on us. We didn’t have but an inch or inch-and-a-half of rain for the whole month of August here.”

He says sandy ridges have started to burn up but some rain on Monday and more rain in the forecast should help. Casner farms near Carrollton, in northwest Missouri.  He expects to start corn harvest perhaps by the end of this week. Other farmers who started harvesting in his area, he tells Brownfield, ran out of dry corn pretty quickly.

AUDIO:  Interview with Adam Casner