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Harvest Quickly Nearing Completion

October 23, 2024 Steve Schwaller

(Lakefield, Mn.)– Just as quickly as it started, the harvest is now wrapping up. Jim Nesseth of Extended Ag Services in Lakefield says that made it the most rapid harvest in years and saved on drying costs…

“A lot of 14, 15, 16 percent corn that was harvest towards the end and actually for the last week or two, it just depended on your maturity that you had for corn. I talked to some producers that never turned the dryer on, so that was a plus, I think, on that side. Overall I think everyone is kind of disappointed with the yields, just not getting up to their APH’s that they got for crop insurance. Just too many drowned out spots to get some good field averages, and so pretty disappointing from that regard.”

Nesseth says the extremely dry soil is causing issues with fall tillage…

“It’s pretty lumpy, not that nice mellow soil conditions that you like to have. A lot of big clumps and lumps with tillage, it’s just not breaking up very well and pulling pretty hard. We really need a rain and that translates, too, as far as nitrogen application.”

Unless conditions change, Nesseth says many producers may be forced to delay those things until in the spring.

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