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Farmers waiting for soil conditions to improve after recent storms

Recent severe storms have kept some Indiana farmers out of the fields.

Matthew Seib, a farmer in the southwestern part of the state, says his family will begin planting as soon as conditions allow them to.

“We pretty much have everything ready and when it dries up it will be go time,” he says.

His brother Carl tells Brownfield, “we would have started last week but Mother Nature had other plans for us.”

The brothers farm with their father Wayne and their uncle Mark.

Mark Seib says they’re patiently waiting for soil conditions to improve.

“We’d like to be in the field planting and going after it right now because that means we have a full growing season to go through. It’s when we get into late May and early June when we won’t have that opportunity and will have to dry more and soybeans will have to be harvested earlier. So, (the crop) doesn’t get that full potential for us to get the maximum yield,” he says. “When the ground temperature gets right and the ground is right, we go. Whenever that is, we go.”

The Seibs raise corn and soybeans in Posey County, Indiana.