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Indiana crops: corn 47%; soybeans 50% good to excellent

Another week with heavy rainfall limited field activity for farmers around Indiana.  According to the latest weekly crop report, Indiana’s corn condition held steady at 47 percent good to excellent with 19 percent of the crop silking.

Indiana farmer Kip Tom says there is a lot of variability from field to field.  “From Elkhart, Marshall, Kosciusko and over to Noble and Whitley, Allen, and Huntington Counties – when we get into tighter clay soils, some areas we planted up to three times – and we still have a very sub-standard crop in those areas,” he says.

He tells Brownfield Mother Nature continues to remind farmers she has the final say this year.  “Producers that are on those tight clay soils it seems like they get a 3-inch rain every 10 days and it’s going to be hard for those soils to produce a crop we expect to producer here in Indiana,” he says.

Soybean conditions declined slightly from last week with just 50 percent of the crop rated good to excellent.  Thirty-one percent of the crop is blooming and 1 percent is setting pods.

The winter wheat crop is advancing with 98 percent of the crop mature and 78 percent harvested.

Fifty-four percent of the second cutting of alfalfa hay is complete.

AUDIO: Kip Tom, Tom Farms

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