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“It’s tough to have a year like this”

Constant rain with time spent out of the fields during planting season is causing fatigue for certain farmers.  Richard Oswald, a northwest Missouri farmer, says the corn he planted on low ground in late April is gone. What little corn he has planted has major nitrogen issues.

As for soybeans, he got just 90 acres planted on his upland and none on the river bottoms. Three inches of rain fell west of him on Thursday.  He got off easier with 2-tenths of an inch. But, still, he says, it’s tough to have a year like this…

“National recognition really is focused on what a good crop it was and how fast planting took place and how far ahead of average we are. Because right here, we read those reports and we watch the corn and soybean markets trade lower and them and we can see that we’re just not going to have that crop this year. It’s difficult to see that.”

Oswald says fields that don’t have water on them are shiny wet.

 

 

 

 

Oswald says fields that don’t have water on them are shiny wet.

 

But, he adds, “in the words of Scarlett O’Hara, tomorrow is another day.”