A Southwest Indiana farmer says he will need replant this season after flooding over the weekend.
Mark Seib tells Brownfield he only had 300 acres of corn left to plant at the end of last week, but more than 12 inches of rain since Friday has changed things. “There’s going to have to be some replant depending upon what stage it was in. We had a lot of water that traveled and cut and did different things—and that’s what we’re doing this morning is going around and accessing what fields look like and what fields we can get to that the roads are not closed.” He says more rain and severe weather is in the forecast for the rest of the week which is expected to bring even more flooding.
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