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Missouri farmer says yields average

Northwest Missouri farmer Rick Paris tells Brownfield he’s on the tail end of corn harvest and about halfway on soybeans… His yields, so far, are about average. The growing season was typical for Missouri, “It’s either feast or famine. We’re either waiting for it to rain or waiting for it to dry up and this year we had major events of both.”

The peaks and valleys of weather, he tells Brownfield, are what make this an average yield year, “I tell my son who farms with me, I said this is going to be one of those years – five years from now, 10 years from now – we’ll just forget about. You remember the great years and you remember the bad years. The mediocre years, the average years, they just run through. We just hope to hold everything together and get to play again next year.”

Missouri’s corn yields are a lot more than what the Missouri Corn Growers Association expected, “In general, I think the yields are going to be fantastic this year. Maybe the second or third highest on record,” says CEO Gary Marshall.

 

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