BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (KSNW) -- Across Kansas and its surrounding states, corn is doing much better than expected. Fields planted in Spring are producing more bushels per acre, and more acres were planted, which sounds like a good thing. However, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicts a lower price due to increased yields.

It could be the age-old problem of too much of a good thing. Just outside of Belle Plaine, farmer Elden Lawless is experiencing the surge first-hand. The Belle Plaine co-op has already been cleared to make way for the enormous corn harvest in September. He says he worries the amount of corn may overwhelm the grain elevator when soybeans are harvested after corn.

"[The Belle Plaine] co-op has the elevator at Conway Springs, and probably some of the cor

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