{"id":90303,"date":"2017-07-15T07:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=90303"},"modified":"2017-07-17T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T13:05:11","slug":"flooding-causing-problems-for-crops-vw-area-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/07\/15\/flooding-causing-problems-for-crops-vw-area-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding causing problems for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

KATE O\u2019CONNELL\/<\/strong>independent feature writer<\/em><\/p>\n

Unusually high rainfall this summer is wreaking havoc on the county\u2019s crops.<\/p>\n

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Flooding this spring has caused a myriad of problems for local farmers.<\/strong> (photo provided)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rainfall the last six days varied throughout the county with reports of 6\u00bd inches in the southeastern portion to 2\u00bd inches in the northern half.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe county has been inundated with rain,\u201d said Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been sticky getting into the fields since planting season began. About 15 inches of rain fell in the southern portion of the county in May. Over half of that total fell in one day in the Glenmore\/Wren area, he said.<\/p>\n

Ken Kottenbrock, district conservationist at Van Wert Soil and Water Conservation District, said local farmers have taken a lot of hits this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome farmers have replanted up to three times,\u201d Kottenbrock said, adding that the rainfall has been so spotty throughout the county the condition of the crops is \u201call over the board.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDown in the southeastern part of the county they have been behind from the get-go,\u201d\u00a0he said, referring to the deluge of rain in May.<\/p>\n

While there has definitely been damage done, some growers won\u2019t know the total impact until harvest comes, Kottenbrock said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce we start thinking we might make it through, we get another beat down,\u201d he said. \u201cIt will be a broad range of yields this year I suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rain and wind has resulted in root lodging and green snap in the area\u2019s corn, according to Sarah Noggle of the Ohio State Extension Office in Paulding County.<\/p>\n

Root lodging occurs when the corn\u2019s brace roots are pulled slightly from the soil due to high winds. The result is a weaker stalk. Green snap is also caused by strong winds and refers to the breakage of a corn stalk that hasn\u2019t tassled.\u00a0Stalk brittleness is greatest in rapidly growing corn under high temperature, high soil moisture conditions.<\/p>\n

Noggle said conditions have also led to concerns of European corn borer on non Bt corn.<\/p>\n

Beans are also getting impacted by the weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cWet and hot conditions can lead to\u00a0Phytophthora\u00a0root rot,\u201d Noggle said.<\/p>\n

Phytophthora occurs when water molds travel through the water and infect the roots of the plants that don\u2019t have resistance to the pathogen.\u00a0\u00a0The plants may not initially show symptoms but they will be rotting from the inside out, Noggle said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just usually doesn\u2019t rain this much in July,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Farmers in Van Wert and Paulding counties are about 70 percent done with wheat harvest, Noggle said. Last year at this time wheat harvest had been completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as growth, corn is about two and a half to three weeks behind from last year and beans are three to three and a half weeks behind, compared to last year,\u201d Noggle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KATE O\u2019CONNELL\/independent feature writer Unusually high rainfall this summer is wreaking havoc on the county\u2019s crops. Rainfall the last six days varied throughout the county with reports of 6\u00bd inches in the southeastern portion to 2\u00bd inches in the northern half. \u201cThe county has been inundated with rain,\u201d said Van Wert County Emergency Management Director […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 17:36:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}