A central Missouri farmer says the extreme drought conditions were too much for his corn crop.
Nathan Alpers from Cooper County tells Brownfield irrigation helped the corn make it to fall, but stalk quality wasn’t good and the small ears were difficult to shell.
“We had to make a few adjustments to our corn head so the ears could come through,” he says. “As far as the stalk quality, there was stalk rot and the crop did the best it could to hold on.
