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A good looking corn crop

Harvest is just underway for Swayzee, Ind. farmer Doug Morrow.  He says so far – his corn is doing better than he expected.  “We started on corn,” he says. “It’s coming out of the field at 28 percent.  I believe it is going to be a good crop and what we’ve taken out so far is yielding beyond my expectations.”

And, he tells Brownfield, he is pleased with the crop quality.  “I haven’t seen any SDS or white mold in soybeans yet,” he says.  “But I do know there is some aroun the state.  The corn – the quality we’ve been picking so far has been fine.”

While corn harvest has begun, Morrow says with this cold and weather, his soybeans are still a few weeks away from maturation.  “That’s going to put us into October,” he says.  “It could very well be the middle of October.  That gets kind of scary on trying to get the beans out.  With the change in the weather and the shorter days – the beans look like they’re maturing and coming along.”

But, Morrow adds, there is still a lot of green left in the field.