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Missouri farmer’s water-logged crops

A Missouri farmer is hoping the water standing in his corn and soybean fields continues to drain off. Adam Casner, who farms in Carrollton, in west-central Missouri, says they got nine inches of rain a couple of nights ago and it’s still raining, “We’ve got water standing everywhere in our fields. It’s hard to see how vast the water is out there in the fields because the beans are at least waist-high everywhere so you can’t really see how much water is out here.”

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He says the water is draining slowly into the Missouri river and he hopes most of it is gone before temperatures get back into the upper 90s, “That will really bake the crop down with it standing in the water like it is and make things even worse.” Casner says the Missouri River is low right now, so that’s helping with the drainage.