Linn County

I'm not saying it's not there, just haven't seen it yet.

Mark Zell farms in Linn County, Missouri, and tells Brownfield there has been some minor cases of corn sprouting, but not much.

I've heard of some places around that have had a little worse, and it's showing up some, but uh, we haven't had any issues here, and I don't think there's been any issues with the beans yet.

Zell says harvest got off to a slow start, but improving weather should allow farmers to make significant progress in the week ahead.

We...

Ooh, Macon County is where it started, which is right there next to Linn County.

So, um, we've been, uh, you know, the, uh...

I would say the hotspot-

Uh, Jacob Swisegood.

Uh, Robin's cousin.

Uh, my grandpa has land that he grew up on up north in Linn County, and, uh, that's where all my family is and that's where we've always went up hunting.

Um, took Micah up hunting with me, what was it, in high school?

House Ag Committee Chairman Glenn G.T. Thompson told farmers in northern Missouri late last week that the U.S. House and Senate Ag Committees have been working out the details of the farm bill.

Mark Zell, who farms in Linn County, was one of about 40 farmers in attendance.

Hoping to get that finished up without too many major changes to the House version, but there was still some discussion, obviously, over the nutrition part of the bill, but that's always something that's a problem.

Thompson and U.S. Senate Ag Committee Chairman John Bozeman are trying to resolve the remaining differences ahead of the lame duck session.

Yeah, so one of the things, so mid-teens we started to slowly detect it in a, in a couple of additional places.

Some of the lessons we learned in Macon and Linn County, we sorta took with us to the, to the, to when we'd get a new detection.

Okay.

Well, where we found ourselves a couple years ago is, is the disease kept spreading.