Mother Nature has brought widespread relief from drought for some farmers in the Western Corn Belt.
“I’m not going to complain one bit about the planters sitting here waiting for a sunny day to get back out in the field.”
South-Central Nebraska farmer Randy Uhrmacher tells Brownfield he’s received about three inches of rain recently. “It gives us a little bit of a recharge on our subsoil moisture now. That’s kind of what we’ve needed to get us past knee-high on these crops.