And I’m glad he brought up that point about weather because there was historic flooding in the Milwaukee area a couple weekends ago. Jackson, Wis., no-tiller Ross Bishop got around 10 inches of rain in one day, putting the resiliency of his fields to the test.
“The water is going to affect the nitrogen that’s in the soil for feeding the crop. The soybeans, this will probably make them really good because in August they like to get a lot of rain. You can see in the field here it’s still sitting 3-4 inches, that’s going to take while. And we have another quarter inch of rain coming tomorrow, so this is going to keep us out of the field quite a while.”
The flooding in Milwaukee was classified as a 1,000-year event, meaning it has a 1 in 1,000 chance of happening in any given year.
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