With the fall application of anhydrous right around the corner, Warren-Henderson Farm Bureau President Jake Armstrong provides a harvest update:
“The moisture has just been a huge thing this year. This crop dried down very, very quickly and rapidly. It is a volume by weight business, so when you are only hauling nine percent soybeans versus the thirteen percent you should be hauling, that is about six bushels an acre you are losing. There is not a lot you can do about it, especially this year if you look back, it is not like if you would have started cutting your beans earlier you would have got the thirteen percent beans you wanted, right out of the gate we were getting ten and eleven and nine percent beans. There really wasn’t a great window to capture that. The corn we are starting to see it now, twelve and thirteen percent corn coming into the elevator; fourteen percent and under is when you start losing money that way on the water weight. Even with the drier crop, the yields have been good. Beans are all over the place, but corn has been consistently strong.”
Armstrong reports that around 90 percent of beans have been harvested, while three quarters of the corn crop is out of the fields locally.
