Central Missouri farmer Robert Alpers was unable to plant about 20 percent of his soybean acres. “Probably 400 acres, 500 acres of beans that we’re have to take prevented planting on,” Alpers told Brownfield Ag News. “It shortened our planting season, but we sure didn’t intend on it.” The up-side is that Alpers’s hay crop looks good. “Last year I’d say we were down at least 30 percent [in hay] because of a cold spring, nothing got started and then it turned off dry, but now this year of course we have rain every week,” he said.
