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Farmer confident in yields after weekend rains
A southern Wisconsin farmer is optimistic about crops after receiving more than three inches of rain since Friday. Ryan Nell says, “This rain definitely just kept us in that very high yield expectations.”
Ryan Nell grows crops between Beaver Dam and Juneau in southern Wisconsin, one of many areas where June was very dry and he was seeing some of the hilltops burning with just enough moisture for most of the crop to hang on. “We were slowly getting like, here’s a quarter-inch to keep you going, and then maybe we’d get a half-inch or 4/10ths, something like that. We never really had a big significant rain, and now we finally have something that can fill up the subsoil. Now, we’ve finally got it.”
Nell is also closely watching some of his experimental soybean plots and says his March-planted twin 60-inch row beans just might be his highest-yielding field this year.
Nell also tried an experiment planting soybeans last December, but he suspects they didn’t make it because the ground got too warm during the winter, along with late spring frosts and insect pressure.
