“This drought is more varied than the last drought,” Brown said.
“Within the state drought remains heaviest in northern counties.” For Missouri farms affected this year, it’s bad.
Now, 72 percent of Missouri faces a D1 or moderate drought.
That compares to 2012 when 90 percent of the state was D3 and D4, or exceptional drought, for five weeks.
Corn maturing early showed slight improvement in yield outlook this past week.
Soybean yield projections remain flat.
Brown says hay prices shot up $60 per ton since first of the year.
Brown says market reports don’t show a dramatic increase in cattle sales.
Northern Missouri counties suffered early and heaviest.
Source: Scott Brown, 573-882-3861 For more than 100 years, University of Missouri Extension has extended university-based knowledge beyond the campus into all counties of the state.