Corn Reports on Indiana Counties

Indiana has been bearing the brunt of the drought hitting the Midwest portion of the United States, with reports from a number of counties coming in as to how bad it has gotten.

The Indiana counties surveyed by the MDA EarthSat July Crop Tour were were Putnam, Hendricks, Parke and Vermillion.

After touring fields in each county, it was found that the average was only 56.3 bushels an acre, plummeting from the 143.4 bushels an acre last year the farmers in those counties produced.

According to the USDA, the corn crop in Indiana has only 7 percent of it rated as good to excellent, dropping a percentage point from last week.

To show how bad some of these counties are, Parke County had better looking corn than the rest, and is expected to produce about 121 bushels an acre. That means Putnam, Hendricks and Vermillion counties will, on average, fall another 20 bushels an acre below the 56.3 bushels averaged out for all four counties.

Putnam County may be in the worse shape of all the counties, with the members of the MDA EarthSat July Crop Tour saying most of it will probably go unharvested because of the damage.

All of this is the best case scenario. Who knows where it'll all end if the rains don't come.