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Michigan corn: knee-high to tasseled

A dairy farmer in Michigan says his planting season lasted nearly two months and now crops are highly variable.

“Corn’s tasseled to knee-high so it’s all over the board but for the most part crops look really good.”

Richard Meyers milks about 850 cows near Kalamazoo and farms 3,000 acres.  He tells Brownfield thankfully he shouldn’t be short on feed this season.

“Being able to put it up in a timely manner I think is going to be the hardest part in the fall with the silage harvest spread over such a wide timeframe.”         

He is worried crops will be more suspectable to frost with a later maturity date but is optimistic about recovering milk prices.