You can always learn something new

I won’t claim to be an ag expert, not by a long shot.
Still, when my husband told me a few weeks ago about an article he had just read about transpiration, I was surprised and my curiosity piqued. Maybe, many, many years ago in a science class, a teacher mentioned transpiration as part of the water cycle. I mean, I do know how evaporation works.
But until he mentioned this idea that corn crops are possibly raising, even a little, the humidity levels around the Midwest, I had never really connected plants and the amount of moisture in the air. I mentioned the subject to an actual ag expert I know, who assured me that while many farmers might have recently heard the word transpiration, many other Calhoun County residents might be as unaware as I was.
Read more in the July 20 edition.