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Indiana crops continue to struggle

Indiana’s corn and soybean crops continue to struggle and one Indiana farmer says his crops are no exception.

Randy Kron farms in Southwest Indiana.  He says he’s been around the state and no two fields look alike.  “I joke, but it isn’t a joke, we have corn that tasseled over the weekend,” he says.  “And corn that is ankle high.  But unfortunately that is all in the same field.”

Kron says unforeseen weather challenges also caused them to change weed management this spring.  “We had some marestail and some water hemp that we knew we weren’t going to get killed with burndown,” he says.   “When we should have been spraying it was raining every other day and it was muddy and they got too big and we ended up doing more tillage than I’d like to admit.”

He tells Brownfield he hopes to never see another growing season like this one.  “I don’t know if I’ve ever seen anything in my time go from a flood to what looks like a desert,” he says.  “We were fortunate enough to have a few irrigators that were running and then last week we got 4” of rain.  It just seems like it is feast or famine.”

The latest crop and weather report has 46 percent of Indiana’s corn and 51 percent of soybeans rated good to excellent.

AUDIO: Randy Kron, Indiana farmer

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