REPORT: Located in the State of Indiana, the Kohlhagen Farm is a typical family business in this part of the Midwest. We dropped in for a chat to find out how planting was going and understand some of the challenges they face
The month of May in the state of Indiana, the sun is shining, and it is a balmy 28°C. When we pulled into the Kohlhagen farm in Rensselaer, 60km south of Lake Michigan, we passed through huge puddles, signs of recent rain.
Rich Kohlhagen, the senior in the business greets us. Normally the maize corn and soybean drilling is completed by mid-May, but at the moment the Kohlhagens have drilled just half of their 4,000 acres (1,619ha). The two huge drills are standing in the yard, and their mud-caked tracks suggest they have happened upon some sticky ground.
