
Fast plant, slow moisture: Farmers’ refrain: We need timely rains amid drought conditions
“Rain makes grain.” Farmer Jay Hansen quotes the adage while surveying the corn growing in his family’s field along Route 47, across from Allendale Road. He gestures to the spot among the rows where the height of the stalks starts to dip, where the stalks on Hansen’s right are a foot shorter than those on […]

