Heavy rain storms alter spring planting schedule

Some planting 60% done, others just getting started

  • Dust and heat waves blur the view of this tractor as it works in a field in northern Hamilton County on April 20. Planting operations were often accompanied by large clouds of dust as seeds were sown in the dry soil before the recent rains.
    Dust and heat waves blur the view of this tractor as it works in a field in northern Hamilton County on April 20. Planting operations were often accompanied by large clouds of dust as seeds were sown in the dry soil before the recent rains.
“I’m sure nobody’s going to complain right now as if we got a good inch soaker!”So said Marquette area farmer Todd Danhauer, speaking last Thursday afternoon. But, of course, that was before some areas of Hamilton County received more than 3.5 inches of rain in the Thursday night/Friday morning thunderstorms that dropped more than 5 inches of driving rain near Wood River and spawned devastating…

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