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News » May, June weather kills 30% of local corn crop
June 18, 2012
Soil crusting could cost Outagamie County farmers nearly a third of their corn crop.
UW-Extension ag agent Kevin Jarek says the soil was dry in mid-May, when most farmers planted their corn. He says the small amount of rain they received since then, created a crusted top layer of soil that prevented some of the crop from sprouting.
Jarek says the rain that fell this morning won't help any of those seeds pop through the ground, but it will help the plants that survived.
Jarek says the soil crusting also hurt the soybean crop, but it could bounce back. |
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