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Rain continues to slow Wisconsin field work

Rain continues to cause problems for Wisconsin farmers trying to get field work done.  Casey Kelliher from Whitewater is the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association President, and he tells Brownfield his seed corn is still in the bag.  “None of it is in the ground.”

 

Kelliher says it was hard to get in the field last week.  “We’ve got some river bottom and some heavier soil.  It’s all tiled well.  We were actually able to get in at the beginning of the week and do a couple hundred acres of anhydrous, but by Wednesday, we got rain again and that will keep us out.”

 

Kelliher says there are other farmers in southwestern Wisconsin that are able to plant.  “I know south of us where the ground is a little lighter and they’ve missed some rain, they’ve got a couple thousand acres in.  One guy I know, he’s still in southern Wisconsin right at the (Illinois) state line and he goes in southwest Wisconsin, they got a lot in.”

 

Kelliher intends to plant about 22-hundred acres of corn, but like many farmers, he can’t begin until the weather cooperates.