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Approaching harvest with optimism

Harvest is getting closer and Central Indiana farmer Don Lamb is cautiously optimistic.  “It looked so bad early and then later on it started to look better,” he says.  “Partly because you can’t see as well because the crops have gotten above eye level in the field.  But we feel a little more optimistic than we did.”

Because May and June were so wet – he says they weren’t able to get in the field at all.  “We really didn’t do anything to take care of that crop in the month of June,” he says.  “So to come to June 30^th, and have a crop that’s there that you can pretend to take care of is a testament to the genetics and to the modern technology that we have.”

He says the wet growing season created even more opportunity for disease this year.  “We tried not to steer away from fungicide applications and things – things we kind of wanted to steer away from a cost standpoint with a tough crop,” he says.  “We decided to stick with them because of that disease pressure.”

Lamb says the crops look better – but he won’t know what is actually in the field until harvest.