The recent rain accumulation has left some crops saturated, we spoke to a farmer insurance agent who tells us how the heavy rains is affecting the crops.
Alan Davis from Alan Davis Insurance tells us farmers can continue working on the fields as early as next week. Davis says it hasn't been very dry for the soil and the colder temperatures aren't helping either. He says the cold weather is affecting the crops and causing delayed emergence and maybe even delayed germination.
"Some of the crop that was planted might not come up simply because of the cold wet. The seed might deteriorate rot in the ground and not ever grow and then a lot of the seeds that were sprouted and starting to grow are really really slow because of soil temperature is around 50 to 55 degrees, the plant, the seedling doesn't grow very fast and so it will delay emergence of a lot of the crops that been planted," commented Davis.
Davis says due to crop insurance purposes and maximum amount of coverage, it is recommended that farmers don't plant corn after June 5th. There will be a reduction for anything planted after that day.
