Harvest is now fully underway in our area. We are nearing 25% completion with our corn harvest. Moisture's have been as low as 17% and as high as 22% on the acres we have harvested. We have other fields that are much higher in moisture and will wait on those to dry further before we combine them. Yesterday's 90 plus degree temperatures and 25 mph winds blasted the corn and surely removed two entire points of moisture. It also snapped the tops out of the really dead corn and made them look worse than they really are. Our yields have been all over from poor to better than expected. Our continuous corn acres are hanging in there and we cannot say there is a penalty. That being said, the big differences are hybrid and planting date from what we have seen. We have harvested a couple Poncho/Votivo 500 seed treatment trials and so far the PV500 is 2-6 bpa better which certainly pays for the added expense with these commodity prices. We also had a Urea vs. ESN trial and measured virtually no difference.
We continue to carve out our remaining fields at a rapid pace. Rumors of aflotoxin in corn have been around, but we have not seen any in our fields yet.
Be safe and please be patient with all farmers this fall as we move our farm equipment along on the back roads and highways.
Harvesting corn on the Stelte field just East of Ashland along Rt. 125
Max & Owen waiting for their first combine ride of the season
Unloading into a wagon
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