Minnesota farmers ready to turn the page to 2020

Dec 31, 2019 at 08:39 AM CST
For a farmer, work depends on weather, seasons, and the calendar. As the snow falls on the farm this December day, you call it reflection time. "I'm glad I'm sitting in here looking out rather than try to pick corn in this weather," said farmer Les Anderson and President of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association. He's reflected on 2019. "You just sort of want to get it behind you and move on," said Anderson. He speaks for many when he says this past year was one of those historically bad years. "It just affected a lot of people in a lot of different ways," said Anderson. "In the spring, delayed spring. Wet spring. A lot of fields didn't get planted especially western, northern Minnesota. Turns into a long fall. Sugar beets didn't get harvested, Potatoes didn't get dug. A lot of corn left out in the field."

Dec 31, 2019 at 08:39 AM CST

For a farmer, work depends on weather, seasons, and the calendar. As the snow falls on the farm this December day, you call it reflection time. "I'm glad I'm sitting in here looking out rather than try to pick corn in this weather," said farmer Les Anderson and President of the Minnesota Corn Growers Association. He's reflected on 2019. "You just sort of want to get it behind you and move on," said Anderson. He speaks for many when he says this past year was one of those historically bad years. "It just affected a lot of people in a lot of different ways," said Anderson. "In the spring, delayed spring. Wet spring. A lot of fields didn't get planted especially western, northern Minnesota. Turns into a long fall. Sugar beets didn't get harvested, Potatoes didn't get dug. A lot of corn left out in the field."