Recent Crop Tour Shows Sporadic Crops, Wind Damage

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On a recent a crop tour conducted from an airplane, Warren Henderson Farm Bureau President Jared Kunkle saw multiple things.

Kunkle says there was wind damage from a recent storm. However, Kunkle says the damage was sporadic. Kunkle also says that the crops themselves were sporadic as well. Some crops look well, but other crops were not planted, as well as crops being replanted, especially soy beans.

According to Kunkle, looks can be deceiving when it comes to surveying crops.

“You really have to get out in the field, because sometimes you can look at endros and say it’s going to be an phenomenal crop and then once you get into it you say, ‘oh shoot’. Some of these wind damage fields that I saw, unless you walk in the field or did an aerial, you probably wouldn’t have an idea.

That’s sickening to people who don’t know that, and then get in there with the combine and go ‘what in the world happened here?'”

Kunkle also says he saw significant amounts of water hemp some crops.

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