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Rainfall provides relief to stressed crops

corn-lincoln 7-13Last week’s rainfall provided much needed moisture for stressed crops.

Wheat harvest is underway around much of the state with 34 percent already harvested.  Eighty-two percent of the crop has reached maturity and 75 percent is rated good to excellent.  After last week’s storms, some fields are exhibiting lodging and in addition to wind damage, the wet conditions are increase the presence of vomitoxin and rust.

Elaine Gillis farms in east central Indiana.  She says they should start wheat harvest tomorrow.  “Everything has headed out nicely,” she says.  “We’re looking forward to having a fairly decent crop of wheat this year.  We don’t grow a lot of wheat in our farming operation – but what we do have looks good.”

She tells Brownfield their corn and soybean crops are doing much better than a year ago.  “We were inundated with lots of rain,” she says.  “Even through the month of June in this particular area.  Right now most of the area looks in pretty good shape, beans are coming up nicely and looking pretty good and corn has pretty much canopied at this point with some of the crop even shoulder high.”

According to the latest weekly crop report 73 percent of Indiana’s corn crop is rated good to excellent with 5 percent silking.

Seventy-four percent of soybeans are rated good to excellent with 95 percent of the crop emerged and 4 percent blooming.

The first cutting hay is almost complete, but new growth had slowed due to lack of precipitation.

At the end of last week widespread precipitation fell, alleviating abnormally dry conditions in parts of the state.

AUDIO: Elaine Gillis, Indiana farmer

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