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Central Missouri farmer starts with good yields
A Central Missouri farmer is getting better-than-expected yields early
in the harvest. Robert and Nathan Alpers lost all their low-lying river bottom
acres to flooding last spring, but they began shelling corn Wednesday on higher
ground. Robert tells Brownfield yields are better than he thought they’d be.
“It looks like the first field ran 182 [bushels to the acre] and then the
second one was 183,” Alpers told Brownfield Ag News Thursday, “and the field
that my son’s running in now, he called me and said it’s better yet.”
Alpers assumes that the wet areas they replanted late will not be as productive,
but they got rain at the right time, and “they’ll have corn in them.”
“So I think this year it’s just a matter of how good a stand you had,” said
Alpers “We were fortunate; we had the right conditions this year to make a good
crop.”
Robert Alpers farm with his son Nathan at Prairie Home, Missouri.
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