Farmer faces equipment breakdowns this planting season

Western Indiana farmer Kevin Cox says machinery breakdowns are slowing planting progress this spring. 

“We’ve had an issue with one of the planters and the guys from John Deere have been here several times working on it. they’re swapping parts and they just can’t quite pinpoint what’s going on with it,” he says. “The good thing, if there is any, is the fact that it has been raining so we haven’t been able to be in the field because of wet conditions.”   

He tells Brownfield a planting window is approaching.

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