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SOME FARMERS HAVE ALREADY DESTROYED THEIR CORN CROP
Jul. 13, 2012
Farm Progress reports:
Farmers in Iowa, Illinois and Indiana are asking crop adjustors if they can mow down corn - and some farmers already have.
Adjustors are asking that farmers be patient as they begin to file claims, because they expect the number of claims to be large. In fact, one crop adjustor in Indiana predicts that nearly every farmer with crop insurance in the four-county area he services for multiple crop insurance agents will likely file a claim.
Chris Hurt, a Purdue University agricultural economist, confirmed for the week ending July 8 - after the sizzling Fourth of July heat that hit most of the Corn Belt - that only 12% of Indiana's corn crop was rated good or excellent. More than 60% was poor to very poor, a number overshadowed at this point in the season only by the drought of 1988, when 90% of Indiana's corn was poor or very poor for the same reporting period.
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