Indiana farmer, “It’s just a mud hole”

Like many others, Clark Howey is trying to wrap up the fall harvest. But last week’s rain which dropped between 3 and 4 inches isn’t helping. Howey, who farms in Tippecanoe County Indiana, southwest of Lafayette described field conditions for Brownfield.

“They’re awful, they are just awful, I’m sitting here right now looking out the windshield of the combine and you can see where the combine started to sink and I’ve backed out four times, I go up to the edge where it gets mega soft and I back out of it,” said Howey. “It’s terrible for the fields, but what are you gonna do.”

To compound the situation, Howey says the corn is wet, and elevators in his area are only taking grain for a couple of hours each day.

“A lot of guys are getting only two or three loads a day, if that,” Howey said. “There’s a little town south of us, they did it on an allotment, only two loads a day, per farmer.”

Audio: Clark Howey, Indiana farmer (1:40 MP3)