Late-season rains benefit Indiana farmer’s soybean crop

Late-season rains benefit Indiana farmer’s soybean crop

Better weather has provided a late-season boost for some Indiana crops.

Matt Chapman farms in Henry County, east of Indianapolis.  The soybeans, I think, will be above-average,” he says.  “The rains in August have helped them. I think corn will be an average crop, maybe below average a little bit.”

He tells Brownfield he’s starting to put together a plan for the upcoming growing season.  But there are still a lot of unknowns, like cost of production.  “Trying to determine if we’re going to have a slowdown in the world economy,” he says.  “What does that look like for commodity prices and our input prices?

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