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Corn planting’s begun in Missouri

Some farmers in southwest and southeast Missouri are getting their corn planted. Kyle Kirby, who farms near Liberal, in southwest Missouri, says he planted close to 150 acres to corn on the last day of March – but he’s now waiting while some rain passes through.

Last year, he was done planting corn by April first. “We can’t have any better year than we had last year,” Kirby tells Brownfield Ag News, “We had corn in the 200-plus range and we just had a dream year down here. So, I guess my hope will be that we have another one like last year.”

The ground’s not ready for corn in northwest Missouri, but farmer Richard Oswald says there’s a lot of field work going on there. He says the roads are covered up with ammonia tanks, “Typically, a lot of people put ammonia on in the fall. That’s what we do. But, a lot of my neighbors, I guess, didn’t for one reason or another. They’re comparing the price of anhydrous ammonia to the price of urea fertilizer, seeing that they can put ammonia on for about half price.”

Kirby and Oswald say they’re going to stick with their 50/50 corn/soybean rotation.