The spring of 2022 is one Dickey-Marion Insurance Agency President Gene Rode would like to forget. Nearly 20 inches of rain fell from late April to July 1. “Commodity prices were looking nice and yet the farmer’s hands were tied with getting seeds in the ground,” says Rode. “In early June, we thought about 60 percent of our business acreage wouldn’t get planted, but farmers kept pushing.” In LaMoure, Barnes and Stutsman Counties of North Dakota, Rode says it was closer to 40 percent of the crop that didn’t get planted. At Thief River Falls, Minnesota, Northern Ag Incorporated crop insurance agent Jody Miller serviced a lot of prevent plant acres. She is wrapping up those claims. “Between Roseau, Marshall and Pennington Counties, there weren’t a lot of acres planted.” Miller has wondered how the later planted soybeans, corn and wheat fields will do at harvest. “You hope the decision you made was the right one. It was a pretty wild spring.” Hear the story.
