Much Needed Relief: How crops are faring after recent rain in the northeast

The Northeast corner of the country is finally getting some much-needed relief.

Ben Hushon with The Mill discussed how rainfall over the past 24 hours has made a difference in conditions.

“The previous two weeks we have seen an accelerated dry down on some corn or die down as some folks were saying. Certainly, double-crop soybeans are very thankful to get this rain and even full season. There was a little bit of full season color starting to change on those, but it will certainly help fill some pods out a little bigger soybean,” said Hushon.

While it may be too late to help the corn crop, he says it will not hurt it by any means.

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