Wet Season Delays Spring Planting for Starke and Pulaski County Farmers

A rainy and cool spring season has caused planting problems for farmers in Starke and Pulaski Counties.

“Those things combined have made for a very wet season which, in general, has delayed planting and we’re well behind the average planting for this time of the year. I’m specifically talking about corn planting. For example, the information that we had this past week indicated that across the state, we had planted two percent of the corn, compared to sixty-nine percent at the same time last year,” said Alan Kurtz, Ag and Natural Resources Educator at Purdue Extension.

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