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Missouri on pace with corn despite wetness

Missouri had an average amount of rain last week and cooler temperatures with many farmers trying to make up for lost planting time from a very wet spring.

Farmer Mark Scott in east Central Missouri started last week with flooding along small creeks and streams, “These bottoms, we’re still a week, probably a week to 10 days out because they were all under water for a day and a half.”

Scott ended the week with zero corn acres planted for the week. He tells Brownfield he’s willing to lose some crop insurance money and plant up until June 10th.  Scott has just over 50% of his corn acres planted.

Statewide, corn planting as of Sunday was 97 percent complete, only slightly behind last year and a bit ahead of the average. Nearly 90-percent of the crop has emerged. About 40-percent of the Missouri corn crop, so far, is in fair condition and nearly 50-percent is in good condition.

Soybean planting is more than half done in Missouri, slightly ahead of the average, and about one-third has emerged, a big jump over the week before.