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Corn harvest remains slow for Indiana farmer

A northwestern Indiana farmer says corn harvest has been slow so far this fall.

Kendell Culp says he has harvested corn that was planted in April but is still waiting to harvest corn planted in June.

“Some of our neighbors that have begun harvesting corn planted in June have talked about high 20s and even 30 percent moisture,” he says. “We’ve been really fortunate to have some ideal fall growing weather to get this corn developed and to start the dry down process to get it mature.”

He says corn harvest is about 50 percent complete, but the dry down process is slowing things down. He says there is a local ethanol plant that doesn’t have a dryer so moisture for corn must be 20 percent or less.

He tells Brownfield soybean harvest is almost complete.

“Soybean harvest has advanced dramatically in the last two weeks,” he says. “I would say we’re probably 80 percent finished with soybean harvest in my area.”

Culp says yields are down from previous years.  

“Most of what I’ve seen for corn is probably 10-20 percent less than last year and soybeans are maybe 10-15 percent less than last year,” he says. “They’re still respectable yields but certainly not where we’d like to be.”

Culp grows corn and soybeans in Jasper County.