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Illinois farmer has to replant

A southwestern Illinois farmer says he’s forced to replant corn because of the weather. Larry Hasheider, who farms near Okawville, Illinois, tells Brownfield he made good progress planting corn in early May, “We were about half planted. It was in the ground for about a week already and I thought, well, okay, it turned wet and, you know, generally soil temperatures are decent. I thought the corn would have survived but it just kept staying wet and it rotted the seed in the ground.”

Hasheider says he is in one of those unlucky spots because there are farmers five miles away from him that haven’t gotten nearly as much rain.

As for replanting, he says, they won’t be growing corn for grain, “We’re a little different. We have livestock and cattle, so, I mean, the later corn won’t be for grain. It’ll be for silage because of lower yield and higher moisture content at harvest time.”

Hasheider says they’ve gotten more than 11 inches of rain so far this month in his area.