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Wisconsin farmer says it’s a good crop year, so far

The crops have done well so far for a Darlington, Wisconsin farmer.  Mike Berget grows 95-hundred acres of corn, 27-hundred acres of soybeans, and 200 acres of winter wheat about ten miles north of the Wisconsin-Illinois border.  He tells Brownfield it has been a good year. “I’ve got a few farms that got knocked down, but overall, the crops, not a lot of disease problems and the crop looks pretty good.”

Berget says he has had a few very minor crop disease issues, and he’s feeling very fortunate to have missed the derecho storm two weeks ago. The brown skin rot in the beans and the white mold are kind of starting to show up, a little sudden death, but nothing yet that’s really disastrous. A little on the end rows and a few low spots, but we were just fortunate we didn’t get the wind they got 60 to 70 miles south of us in Illinois.”

Berget is having a little rootworm problem with a certain variety planted where he also grew corn last year. 

Berget says the corn ears look good and the potential for a great crop is there, but he needs some moisture to finish it.