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Southern Illinois farmer says crops could use some rain
A southern Illinois farmer says corn and soybeans are looking good in his area, but they could use some rain.
Raymond Koehnke farms corn, soybeans, wheat and raises cattle in Iuka, Illinois. He tells Brownfield they have only had about a half inch of rain this month.
“In southern Illinois it looks really good. But, where we’re at, we are always about one week away from a drought.”
Koehnke says he laughs because even after 60 years of farming he is never sure what the weather might bring.
He says he just hopes things turn out better than they did last year.
“We just hope for the harvest of 2020 that we have the bushels and prices recover some so it might not be too bad of a deal.”
And Koehnke says they are still about a week out from harvesting wheat.
Tags: Corn, crop conditions, Crops, Farmer, Illinois, rain, Soybeans, Weather, Wheat, wheat harvest
This man should have a radio show. Excellent interview.