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Missouri corn harvest begins
Missouri’s corn harvest has been underway in Southeast Missouri for two weeks now and is starting in a few other areas in spite of late planted crops. Mike Geske farms near Sikeston, in the Missouri Bootheel, “There was quite a bit of corn the last two weeks of August because there were premiums being paid for last half August delivery. That corn was pretty wet, a lot of it. But, they were desperate for it and so there was a lot of 38, 32% corn being cut.”
He tells Brownfield they’ve been hearing yields have been running between 180 and 230, “We got an early batch that was planted early and then some later. And, really, I think the later corn is probably going to be the better corn. So, we have high hopes that it will get even better from here.” Geske says they are fortunate in Southeast Missouri because the rest of the state is dealing with the opposite of that.
Geske says the cool weather spells this summer have not been as kind to the cotton crop, “Cotton plants are a little bit different from corn. They lost a lot of fruit – the plants were shedding fruit because of that cool dampness that the corn appreciated quite a bit better.”
The persistent dry weather in northern Missouri and other areas is hastening the harvest of corn.
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