An ethanol plant with its giant corn silos next to a cornfield in Windsor, Colorado July 7, 2006./Reuters File Photo.
BRIDGEWATER, SD (KELO.com) — An inch of rain every week and 82-degrees. That’s how Bridgewater area farmer Jason Hofer describes the ideal summer forecast. That’s the ideal forecast – but that isn’t what we’ve seen so far this growing season. His crops picked up some much needed moisture in the middle of the week.
Hofer says before the rain, corn leaves were beginning to curl a bit – not a good sign. The dry ground was also creating problems with weeds.
Hofer received about two-tenths of an inch of rain early Friday morning. It was welcome, but he would welcome more.
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