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Fieldwork delays vary around Missouri
Andy Clay is still looking at high water on his farm near
the Missouri River in central Missouri. He doesn’t know when he’ll be able to
return to the field, he said during a Missouri Farm Bureau Telephone Town Hall Tuesday
evening.
“Somehow we saved the levee, but the bottom is full and looks like it’s been
broke,” said Clay, during the call, “so we’re pretty much out of commission in
both bottoms with the river remaining high for the foreseeable future and then
some.”
The story changes in Missouri’s Bootheel. Southeast Missouri farmer Barry Bean
said during the teleconference that he’s been in the field, but cool, wet
weather has held his cotton back.
“It’s where I would really like to see cotton on about May the 15th,”
said Bean. “If we have a perfect June and July, this cotton will come out of it
and there’s no reason we shouldn’t make a five-year average.”
Bean says any kind of stress on his crop in the next couple of months will result
in lower yield.
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