FREEZING IOWA SPRING MEANS NO FOURTH OF JULY CORN; + GERMANY BUILDS ‘HUGE THERMOS’ TO HELP STAVE OFF THE COLD THIS WINTER AS EUROPEAN ENERGY CRISIS INTENSIFIES
JULY 1, 2022 CAP ALLON
FREEZING IOWA SPRING MEANS NO FOURTH OF JULY CORN
Thanks to a historically cold spring, Iowa farmers say their initial harvest will be pushed back by at least couple of weeks.
“We would like to have corn for the Fourth,” said Luke Funk, owner of Hilltop Farms Produce in Dallas Center. “The problem was it was cold [this spring]. Now, it just depends on sunshine and how cool it gets at night.”
The shortage is firing prices higher, as are the increasing costs of inputs. According to an Iowa State University report, the cost of fertilizer, for example, is four times higher than in 2020.
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