Headline: Crop, herd stress continues to mount
Though temperatures have finally slipped back into the double digits in much of the Corn Belt, it's still hot and dry. Farmers are starting to take stock of the damage their crops and livestock have incurred over the last couple of weeks and their prospects moving forward.
Farmers in the Corn Belt's bookend areas are reporting thhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gife most dire conditions. Reports from eastern Kansas and Michigan, for example, show that while the central Corn Belt region may be in better shape, it's not like that all over.
"It's tough to say what corn yield will be like around here just yet. A nice rain could change things quickly but we are running out of time. If we don't get a rain very soon there wont be much to harvest," says Agriculture.com Marketing Talk member Blacksandfarmer, who farms in southern Michigan. "Corn is starting to stay curled during the night which is usually the beginning of the end."
Source: agriculture.com
