A central Illinois farmer says he’s disappointed with the cool, wet start to April.
Jim Reed, who grows corn and soybeans in Piatt County, tells Brownfield…
“Yeah, I mean, everyone’s got everything kind of locked and loaded and sitting on the sidelines and waiting for the weather to get right,” he says.
He says fields need to dry out, and warm up…
“We can’t be too wet.” He says, “We don’t want to start out packing the ground down and making it hard for the roots to penetrate.
