Crop Comments: Corn chopping off to a slow start

Generally, most Northeast haymakers were satisfied with their 2026 first cuttings’ quality. At most locations, first-cut perennial forage tonnages were adequate to exceptional, except for much of Central New York: Utica’s TV weather reports showed June through August rainfall tallies ran about one-third to one-half of normal. This lack of precipitation extended northeast into the Adirondacks.