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Are crops in Indiana as bad as everyone says?

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After visiting family over the 4th of the July holiday we made our way across Indiana, traveling from Cincinnati to Chicago on I-74 then I-65.

I was looking forward to this leg of the trip because I wanted to see if the crops in Indiana were really as bad as I was hearing. Unfortunately, I have to confirm they are. My husband and I couldn’t believe even the irrigated corn looked bad! The only respectable crops we saw were north of Lafayette.

Ironically as we traveled just north of Indianapolis it started to sprinkle. The impending rain on radar was the talk of the gas station we stopped at. Sprinkles was all it would be though. As the showers came across the Illinois-Indiana line they dissipated. It does appear the southern part of the state got a little relief. It will be interesting to hear how much rain they got out of the storm.

Our counterparts in Indiana, Hoosier Ag Today reported that crop losses in Indiana are expected to exceed those of the 1988 drought. Last week Purdue experts and state leaders gathered to assess the situation.

I snapped photos out the window as we drove through Indiana and this is what I saw:

 

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Author: Heather Hetterick

Heather Hetterick has been promoting agriculture from an early age. Growing up on her family’s farm she was actively involved and showed hogs, steers and sheep through 4-H and FFA. She is from Shelby county and her family there raise hogs and dairy cattle, grain farm and run a feed business.

Her responsibilities include reporting for the Ohio Ag Net, Ohio’s Country Journal and ocj.com. She also oversees the companies online entities and each day can be found tweaking the online news site, writing Digital Dale and posting to Facebook and Twitter.

She is a graduate of the Ohio State University, where she was named one of the Top 10 Seniors in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. After college Heather was the Director of Marketing & Education for the Ohio Pork Producers Council. She then went on to work for Clear Channel Radio and Time Warner Cable before joining the Ohio Ag Net & Ohio’s Country Journal.

Heather also blogs about food, frugality and freebies at http://www.heathershelpings.com. She loves to cook, coupon and decorate. She is married to her husband, Zach.

2 thoughts on “Are crops in Indiana as bad as everyone says?”

  1. Mike

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    Those pics didnt look any worse than what the corn is looking like right here in Shelby, Logan, and Auglaize Counties.

  2. Heather Hetterick

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    I agree Mike. On the 4th of July I took photos of crops in that area and they did look worse. I should have posted them too.

    The Indiana pictures didn’t really do justice to what we saw. The majority of corn there was short, tasseled and firing.

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