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Missouri corn crop ‘looking great’

Missouri averaged about a quarter-inch of rain this past week. Topsoil moisture supply is 61 percent adequate to surplus, but about a third of the state is short on topsoil moisture.  Corn silking is about complete with a third of the crop in the dough stage.  The crop is 84 percent good to excellent.

Brian Gebhardt, who farms in Mid-Missouri near Salisbury, is pleased with the growing season.

“Everything looks great this year,” Gebhardt told Brownfield Ag News while standing at the edge of one his cornfields.  “We’ve had just minimal problems, a few herbicide carryover issues early on, but that seems to have corrected itself now.”

Two-thirds of Missouri’s soybeans are blooming and 23 percent are setting pods. The soybean crop is 76 percent good to excellent. Cotton squaring is 89 percent complete and half the crop is setting bolls. Missouri’s pastures are 51 percent good to excellent.

“The weather’s great,” said Gebhardt, who hosted the DEKALB/Asgrow agAcademy on his farm.  “We’re hoping for some rain shortly, but everything looks good.”

AUDIO: Brian Gebhardt (2 min. MP3)

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