A central Wisconsin farmer’s planting plans have drastically changed.

John Eron from Junction City tells Brownfield he had one good day to plant about 150 acres of corn on his heavy clay ground but held off on additional fertilizing and planting. “On one field, we got over eight inches of rain in the last two weeks. Another field was about six and a half, so I don’t know if I made the right decision or not but I had a hard time wanting to put that kind of fertilizer out there and potentially see a crop failure.”

Eron says with that much rain over clay, the risk of fertilizer running off the fields was just too high.

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