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Kentucky Farmer Done Double-Cropping
Rain Causes "Awful" Spring, But Doesn't Alter 2009 Crop Plans
Dan Davidson DTN Agronomist Bio \| Email \| Blog
Thu Jul 9, 2009 06:42 AM CDT

OMAHA (DTN) -- With all the rain on his farm, John Martin of Elkton, Ky., uses one word to describe the spring: Awful.

He said they had 11 inches of rain between April 25 and May 20 that annihilated the corn he had planted, due to ponding water and rotting seed.

Despite the weather, and needing to replant 478 of the 500 acres he planted between April 22 and May 30, Martin didn't change his original crop plan.

"We had such a bad start out of the gate with corn. It was late, and replanted, and is so far behind. ...

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