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Waiting on dry conditions to resume planting

A farmer in north-central Missouri says he’d like to have a break in the consistent rains to finish soybean planting.

“We shut down operations on Easter weekend and haven’t been back since.”

Brandon Thiel from Malta Bend tells Brownfield field conditions are close to being dry enough to resume planting, but “we’ve had several days like today where one or two more days of dry weather and we could probably get back into the field, but then, it seems like it rains on those one or two days you need.”

He says all of the corn was planted before Easter, but some of it in the creek bottoms has been flooded out and will need replanted when conditions allow.

While waiting to plant, Thiel says herbicides are being applied in the drier corn fields to manage weeds.

“The weeds like to thrive when there’s no competition. We’re keeping them at bay as long as we can.”

Thiel is also the secretary of the Missouri Corn Merchandising Council.