Farmer: This is the earliest I’ve been done with harvest in 41 years

by | Nov 3, 2015 | 5 Ag Stories, Audio, News

Farmers across Iowa are on the home stretch with harvest either already done or almost complete.

A farmer from Columbus Junction on the Mississippi River says this is the earliest he?s ever been done with harvest in 41 years. Wayne Humphries farms in Louisa County.

He raises corn, soybeans, grass hay, with a small cow herd and contract fed pigs. He says the dry weather helped move harvest right along for him.

?In fact for both the corn and the soybean harvest we enjoyed almost 30 days with no precipitation at all and the crops especially beans dried down very predictably and we finished harvesting them in the first 10 days of October. Yields were very good. We are in an area where historically our area is a 50 bushel per acre area is but this year our farm averaged just over 60 bushels per acre,? Humphries said.

Humphries says corn harvest was also very good finishing harvest around October 19th. He says this was the earliest he has ever been done before. When asked if he had any problems this year, Humphries said not many.

?I wouldn?t say that there were any problems. I know that there are some fields where the wet planting and ponding caused some areas in the fields that didn?t produce anything. No insect particular insect challenges. No molds or mites, mildews or anything like that. It was very uneventful finish to the growing season,? Humphries said.

Humphries adds one of the other challenges was corn stand ability.

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