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Minnesota farmer trying to stay positive after latest setback

A southern Minnesota farmer is trying to stay positive in the face of continual weather challenges.

Rochelle Krusemark of Trimont says the growing season began with planting delays caused by excessive rains that were frequent throughout the summer.

Then last weekend, several inches of snow pushed harvest back.

“You’ve got to look on the bright side.  Right now we’re in corn harvest and we haven’t started soybeans yet.  The ground is too wet, but I think the beans are ready now after this last snowfall.  I don’t know that we’ve ever made a snowman on October 14th.”

Krusemark has corn flattened by wind, but tells Brownfield there’s a silver lining.

“We bought supplies and are going to run a hot wire around and turns some cows out in a couple corn fields and let them graze and glean what we missed.  So I guess that’s one advantage of having livestock.”

Krusemark says her yield expectations for corn have diminished, but she’s hopeful soybeans will come close to what was anticipated in September.