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Some farmers close to starting field work

Some mid-south farmers are close to getting in the field despite Missouri River flooding.

“Actually, if it doesn’t rain or anything, maybe in the next day or two I might be able to put a little anhydrous on,” said Billy Thiel, who farms at Malta Bend, in west central Missouri.

Thiel doesn’t have any river bottom farm ground, and with warmer temperatures, he says it won’t be long before his land is fit to work.

“It’ll dry up here pretty quick,” Thiel, a past president of the Missouri Corn Growers Association, told Brownfield Ag News. “It’ll go quicker than what you think.”

Farming an hour-and-a-half out of Kansas City, Thiel says farmers who avoid the direct effects of flooding will see eventual benefits of the wet fall and winter.

“Well, we ought to have enough subsoil moisture to take us all the way through July,” he said, “or to the first of July, anyway.”

AUDIO: Billy Thiel

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