“The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported recently that due to a late planting season and a cooler and wetter fall than normal, only 20% of the corn crop is out of the fields vs. an average of 58% during the years of 2004-2008.”
You don’t have to have a devastating freeze to cause problems with crops. If you lose a week or two at the beginning of the planting season, and a week or two in the fall, you can be in trouble in terms of overall harvest.
Wife’s cousins are still in the field in SW Iowa. They said it was one of the most miserable harvests they had done in 20 plus years...