IARN – The growing season in the Midwest is going on with a new set of challenges than we faced last year. Well, maybe a new set of challenges isn’t the way we should think about it, but a new combination of familiar challenges. Instead of catastrophic drought, we are seeing historic levels of flooding. We are also looking at more outbreaks of different diseases that the drought had been keeping at bay. But we are also dealing with an influx of some old foes, pests like the corn rootworm.
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