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Too much of a good thing in Ohio

An Ohio farmer says this year’s growing season has consistently been too wet.

Logan County farmer Bill Bayliss tells Brownfield he farms in heavy clay soil and too much rain has become very visible in the field.  “We have our fields tiled every 40 feet and you can see green strips across the field, in between the tile lines it’s yellow soybeans.  The corn is reacting better.”

He says after the wet spring, he had to replant about half of his corn acres which now looks beautiful, but soybeans have not been able to handle the water.  “August will make or break the soybean plant, but at this stage they’re stunted plants from too much water.  I just question if it’s going to be able to recover and whether we can even come up with an average yield let alone a good yield.”

Bayliss says disease issues haven’t started yet, but he just finished spraying some fields that had signs of early defoliation from insect pressure.

AUDIO: Interview with Bill Bayliss

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