(Lakefield, Mn.)– Harvest progress continues with pretty much no interruptions. Jim Nesseth of Extended Ag Services of Lakefield says less than 5 percent of soybeans remain to be harvested in the area. He says most producers have now switched to corn, with yields in most cases coming in between 240 and 250 bushels per acre…
“Yeah, yields are really nice. I think everyone’s pretty happy with that. A lot of that corn moisture-wise is in the teens so it’s really dried down and that’s going to save our producers a lot of dollars on drying costs. It looks like corn harvest is going to go fast but the nice thing is there’s a lot of bushels out there so that will slow things down just a tick.”
Nesseth says some fall tillage has started on the harvested soybean ground…
“On these soybean fields that are getting tilled, it’s really ideal conditions for that. The dry soils like we have, that soil structure really shatters and it breaks up a lot of compaction, so I think we’ll see some nice benefits of that with these dry conditions for fall tillage.”
Nesseth anticipates most of the harvest work will be pretty much wrapped up in the next week or so.
