Weld crops back to basics

Farmers stung by corn price drop last year

Disillusioned by last year’s corn prices dropping too quickly to be taken advantage of, Northern Colorado farmers are looking to go back to their typical crop rotations.That’s according to Craig Anderson, state director of the Colorado Sugar Beet Association and a third-generation farmer. Anderson, whose 320 acres lie southeast of Longmont in Weld County, said that last year, area farmers motivated by a summer price hike in corn – $5 a bushel – and concentrated on that crop were disappointed by a price drop when they were ready to sell.
“We are concerned…