For the second straight year, Midwestern farmers are wrestling with slow-drying corn. Kevin Ross farms near Minden in southwest Iowa, just east of Council Bluffs.
“Last week—last Thursday-Friday there—it was running anywhere from 18 to 22 (moisture),” says Ross. “I did talk to a fellow who had some that was in the 16 range, but that was the lowest that I heard about. Most of it is very high—in the 20 to 25 range.”
Brian Schulz with North Star Farms of Staplehurst, Nebraska says, at this point in the year, he doesn’t expect moisture levels to come down much.
“Unless we get a really hot, dry spell with some wind and sunshine, this corn—more than likely, I think—is going to get to a certain point and just kind of stay there,” Schulz says.
North Star Farms was harvesting one of its first-planted fields on Thursday last week. The 109 day hybrid was running from 18 to 20 percent moisture. They farm north of Seward in east-central Nebraska.
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