May 27, 2011, Fremont News-Messenger
By Jessica Alaimo
Special to The News-Messenger
Hope for a successful corn crop in Ohio is dwindling with every passing rainy day.
As of Sunday, Ohio farmers had 11 percent of planned corn crops in the ground. They had 87 percent at this time last year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Two percent have emerged, compared with 72 percent last year. The 2006 to 2010 average amount of crops is 80 percent planted by May 22, and 58 percent emerged.
Ideally, corn crops should be planted by May 15, said Jack Fisher, president of the Ohio Farm Bureau. Farmers will plant up until June 5, but as the days go by, the yield from them gets lower.
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