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To combine wheat or wait

Dave Russell interviewing Hardin Co. Ohio farmer Ardie Good (10)_webWhen it comes to deciding whether or not to combine wheat, why take a chance with Mother Nature. 

For Ardie Good, who farms in Northwest Ohio, near Dola, in Northern Hardin County, the decision to go ahead and combine his wheat on Monday, July 6, was made a little easier with a forecast for rain. 

“If it was going to be nice for the rest of the week we would have waited a few days,” Good said. “It was testing at 16, a little bit wetter than we like, but we thought with some damage in it, it was time to get it off.” 

While it was the right decision to harvest the wheat, Ardie says that doesn’t lessen the disappointment in how the crop was turning out. 

“No, no, I was hoping for maybe around 80 bushels per acre yield and it looks like it’s going to make about the mid-50s,” said Good. 

That lower than expected yield Good says was likely due to the 10 inches of rain the crop received in June.

Audio: Ardie Good, farmer, Hardin County Ohio

 

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