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Indiana farmer says he’s “rolling with the punches”

A central Indiana farmer says he’s “rolling with Mother Nature’s punches” this spring.

Mike Beard farms about an hour north of Indianapolis and says they didn’t have too many acres planted before the rain system moved in a week ago.  “We’re running a lot of cover crops this year,” he says.  “And we’ve been waiting for good weather to get the annual rye burned down.  The cereal rye – we’ll be planting our soybeans into standing cereal rye.”

He tells Brownfield a planting date at the beginning of May isn’t as impactful as the beginning of June – so he isn’t worried just yet.  “I think if we’re starting to see we don’t have a corn crop planted by mid-May, we’ll certainly start to think about adjusting.”

Beard says in all his years of farming – he has never had a Prevented Plant claim.

AUDIO: Mike Beard, Frankfort, Ind.