Life in the red

A seed advisor with Beck’s Hybrids says many crop farmers in central Missouri are turning to pivot irrigation earlier than usual due to the drought conditions.

Clarissa Cauthorn tells Brownfield it’s more common to plant corn at the beginning of June than irrigate and the rainfall has been spotty. 

“For many of us that means we’re getting an inch of rain here and two-tenths of an inch a mile down the road,” she says.

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