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Machine optimization critical to harvest

The CEO of a large Indiana-based equipment dealer says after this year’s challenging growing season, machine optimization will be critical for a successful harvest.

Mitch Frazier with Reynolds Farm Equipment tells Brownfield harvest won’t be easy for a lot of farmers because conditions will vary from field to field.

“Being able to spend time to optimize that machine to make sure it’s not optimized just for day one in field one, but to optimize it for day one, field one, day one, field two, day two, field two, and so on,” he says.

Audio: Mitch Frazier, Reynolds Farm Equipment CEO 

Indiana farmer Wes Likens attended the Reynolds Farm Equipment Harvest Clinic on Wednesday.

He says it’s been a year like no other. Fields started off and remained wet until about a month ago, but now they’re dry.

“This planting season, we planted, we tore probably half our crop back out – maybe a little more than half – and replanted it,” he says. “We have spots that have been planted maybe three times and then it got water on it again and then it got dry and if it’s not bare and green, there’s still not going to be any crop there.”

Likens and Frazier say harvest in central Indiana should begin around mid-September.

Audio: Wes Likens, Central Indiana Farmer 

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