Weather, aflatoxin top harvest-time worries
date:Sep 20, 2012
u got rain July 4th weekend, he says.

Concerns about aflatoxin in this year's corn crop continue to follow farmers as they progress through fall. Kelly Robertson of Benton, Illinois, says he expects to run into the toxic fungal disease in the fields he'll harvest this fall.

Crop insurance looked at over half my corn crop and estimated it below 10 bushels/acre, so I will end up destroying those acres and will concentrate on harvesting my two best farms, he says. I suspect that the one will make
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