By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
As planting season approaches, Missouri corn growers are getting the opportunity to air their concerns to officials with the Missouri Corn Growers Association.
The association will hold its District One winter meeting tomorrow in Mound City.
Missouri Corn CEO Bradley Schad says these meetings are an opportunity to let growers know their voices are being heard
"We just want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to help them on their farm to where they can stay in their seat on the tractor or combine whatever that be, we're getting into planting season," Schad tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "And just before we get in there, we want to reach out to them and see if there's anything at all that we need to be doing more of for them, we're doing everything we can that we know of."
The association has held a series of meetings throughout the month and will have more coming over the next month to hear growers ahead of planting season.
Schad says one of the biggest challenges growers face is the markets.
Despite a lingering drought that plagued last year's growing season, Schad says Missouri saw a great corn harvest
"We still averaged 153 according to USDA and we're going to produce 561 million bushels supposedly from what USDA says," Schad points out. "So, it's really exciting that we had a monumental drought and still came out with yields like that."
The District One meeting will be held at 6pm at the Mound City Distillery.