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Todd Kimbrell, Central Texas. Out here in this corn field we planted on February 12th,
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the earliest we've ever planted corn. It was a gamble. We got out here early. We're always trying to beat the heat, the summer heat.
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So I hate to be repetitive, but I always tell this, we plant in the winter, harvest in the summer here. So we're up against challenges right off the
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bat. We're trying to beat the heat to get pollinated and grain fill before we get extreme heat. So the risk/reward was pretty
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high. Conditions were good, so I decided to try some on February 12th. We planted, came up, weather was perfect.
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As pretty a stand as you could be. Now on March 17th, we got a freeze and a heavy frost here,
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which I won't say it's not normal, but as heavy as it was, it was not normal to get one that heavy and harsh. So here we are on the 21st, four days later,
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looking from the road, it looks terrible. It looks like half of it's gone. But we get out here, examine around. When you peel back all this dead foliage, we're about to
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shoot a leaf. So I'm hopeful. I think we'll be okay. I hear that we're going to be just fine. I don't know what it'll do to yield either.
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That's to be determined, and it's real spotty. If you look across this field, we're actually on the side of a hill, kind of in the middle of the field, not at the low end.
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I can see down there in the low end, it's not near as bad as it is here in the center. So it was really weird the way it worked this time.
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In my experience in the past, it usually gets the low ends way worse. For whatever reason, not this time.
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And this is one of the worst spots of ours that I've seen. 00:01:48.520 --> 00:01:49.880