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A south-central Minnesota farmer has hopes his 2017 crop will eclipse last year’s record.

Scott Dauk grows corn and soybeans east of Mankato and says the season has turned around after a cool, wet start.

“The crops look really good right now (and) could be better than our record crop last year I believe.”

He tells Brownfield recent rain came at a good time.

“We just had three inches of rain last week in about 45 minutes, so I think we’re in really good shape for the rest of the month if we don’t get (really) high temperatures.”

Hauk says he’s about halfway done spraying tasseled corn with a fungicide.

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