“Better than expected.” “Better than anticipated.” As we hear from farmers around the state, that’s what they keep telling us about corn and soybean yields. Let’s hear from some of those farmers now in our Crop Tour Tuesday segment.
Let’s begin in Northern Indiana with LaPorte County farmer Denise Scarborough, chair of the Indiana Soybean Alliance.
“We started picking commercial corn last week and it’s doing a little bit better than anticipated given how dry we were this growing season. We did receive some rain over the weekend, about an inch and a half to two inches depending on where you were in our area. Thankfully, we missed some of the straight-line winds that were a little bit to the west of us. Our wheat is coming up nicely. It looks like it has a pretty good stand so far. We should get back into the field here shortly and continue picking corn. We’re enjoying some of the cooler weather we’re having, and hopefully we’ll get our double crop beans out soon.”
In West Central Indiana, Ryan Rippy shares that he got back in his fields in Montgomery, Fountain, and Tippecanoe counties at about noon Monday after weekend rains. The break was appreciated!
“We’d had several hard days in a row, so it was nice to be able to spend part of Saturday and Sunday at home and get to see everybody. We are down to about the last 25% of the corn left. We’ve been in our non-GMO acres all last week, and things have been really good.”
In Delaware County, Jenna Scott with Cox Farms Incorporated in Gaston, says harvest progress has been rapid.
“We don’t hardly see any bean fields that haven’t been harvested in our county, maybe one or two, but it looks like everybody has finished up beans. We had a couple problems with our grain bins and couldn’t run for two days, but that gave us a chance to do some preventative maintenance and catch up on a few items. But we’re back in the fields today, and the yields continue to surprise us with how good they are considering how little rain we had, which is a good thing.”
And, last but not least, we head to Southern Indiana where Dubois County farmer and National Corn Board member J.R. Roesner reports from Ferdinand, just north of Santa Claus and Holiday World.
“This past week, we were able to get all but just a few acres of replant soybeans finished up. We were able to make good progress on corn harvest as well. We did get some rain over the weekend that will definitely keep us out for a few days here. Yields, overall, have been good. Even some of the later crops have been surprisingly better than expected. We’re looking forward to hopefully wrapping up harvest here in the next week or so.”
Listen to Hoosier Ag Today’s Crop Tour Tuesday segment below.
