PELLA, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) — A corn and soybean producer in Pella is feeling the drought that happened this summer.
Dennis Bogaard told WOI the lack of rain has given the crops barely enough water to keep growing.
"The corn plant right now usually in August we shouldn’t be seeing the brown husks and the yellow plants that we are seeing in some of this corn right now," Bogaard said.
Bogaard said with the corn, the heat and less rain has given them a chance to see the corn shut down.
With Soybeans, Bogaard said if the weather stays hot, the soybeans will lose energy and start letting go of some of its pods.
"This is probably one that will come off of there pretty quick if it gets really hot and dry and it’s just a little one, but there’s two beans in there and if we can make those two beans on 140,000 plants out here that makes a big difference in the yield," Bogaard said.
Only time will tell how the crops will harvest.