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Harvest underway for western Indiana farmer
Soybean harvest is underway for Western Indiana Farmer Erin Holbert.
“We were able to get started September 26, about three weeks later than we have gotten started in the past couple of years, and things aren’t as bad as expected,” she says. “We have not been in any corn yet and that’s where we’ve heard things are very variable.”
The farm received more than an inch of rain on Friday, but Holbert says they were back cutting soybeans Sunday afternoon. She anticipates that they’ll begin harvesting corn soon.
“We’re hoping to finish soybeans up, we’re about three quarters of the way done, before switching to corn to make it easier putting it in bins and things like that,” she says.
She says, overall, they had good growing conditions after a wet start to the season.
Holbert graduated from Purdue University in 2015 and worked as an agronomist for Cargill and then sold seeds for a regional company before returning to the family farm in November of 2018.
Audio: Erin Holbert, Vermillion County
Tags: 2019 Growing Season, Agriculture, Corn, Crop Update, Crops, Erin Holbert, Farmer, Harvest, Harvest 2019, Indiana, Soybeans
Seems like the Lady has it together