Corn emerges in North Iowa a week after planting

A north-central Iowa farmer credits last week’s heatwave for popping corn out of the ground about a week after it was planted.

Casey Schlichting of Clear Lake tells Brownfield he started planting corn May 7th.

“You can row that corn already. I drove by yesterday and my wife is like ‘Hey, your corn is up.’ And I was like ‘we planted it a week ago.’ And sure enough you can row it now.”

He says there was a little rain the day after he planted and then it got hot.

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