Too Much Water Early

David Staples had 14 inches of rain in late May and early June on his Halstad, Minnesota farm. “Look at the harvest, there were good spots and there were bad spots and it just mattered where the water sat,” said Staples. “Where it was good, it was really good and where it was poor, it was really poor.” Staples didn’t have any prevented plant, but was replanting corn into mid-June. Staples doesn’t expect any changes in his crop plans for 2025. “You can’t outguess Mother Nature or these markets, they’re a moving target so keep doing what’s working. I’m not going to change and the farms we work with at Airborne Seed and Agronomy are staying the same. There’s a pretty tight rotation up here with the sugarbeets and I don’t see a whole lot changing.”