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An interesting year for planting

corn emergedA western Ohio farmer says it has been a pretty interesting planting season.

Keith Kemp farms just east of the Indiana/Ohio state line.   “We got started about the middle of April when we had that one week of 80 degree temperatures,” he says.  “We started planting then and a lot of our neighbors didn’t.  We got about three or four days in before it turned off cold and rainy and everybody set for a good two weeks.”

He tells Brownfield it was an uphill battle but they were able to finish planting earlier this week.  “The first corn that went in had that temperature and really took off,” he says.  “It’s up in the four-leaf stage now and looks really good.  Everything that went in during the May period hit that cold weather spell and we had to do some replanting.  But most of the soybeans came through everything pretty good.”

Kemp says not everyone is as lucky – he says in his area there’s still about 20 percent of the corn crop and around 40 percent of soybeans that still need to be planted.

AUDIO: Keith Kemp, Ohio farmer

 

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