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Thiel gets soybeans in a month later than normal
A western Missouri farmer is one of many who has had to replant corn.
Billy Thiel said he replanted about 200 acres worth.
“All the corn we planted before Easter was fine,” Thiel told Brownfield Ag News
from his farm at Malta Bend, Missouri, “but all the corn after that we had a
lot of standing water and it was cold and damp, and on the flat ground it
mainly puddled.”
April and May were too cold and wet to accommodate planting. Thiel began
planting soybeans June first, about a month later than he usually starts.
“Yes, it’s quite a bit later, but it’s not the latest we’ve started. In 2015 we
started planting beans June 8th, said Thiel. “So actually, we were a
week ahead of time it felt like.”
Thiel doesn’t farm any river bottom ground, but he feels for those who do.
“When it’s not a good year for them,” he said, “it’s not a good year for any of
us.”
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