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Agronomist says northern Indiana farmers prepping for harvest

An agronomist is Northern Indiana says harvest is just around the corner for farmers in his part of the state.

Jason Harmon is with DEKALB and Asgrow. “We still have a lot of corn that is finishing out nicely,” he says.  “It’s at half milk line to 3/4 milk line. We’re going to get to black layer pretty soon, I’d say in the coming 10 to 15 days, and then we’re going to start drying down. It looks like temperatures are going to get cooler and corn harvest will start clicking out.”

He tells Brownfield early planted Group 2 soybean harvest will likely start around the same time.  Harmon says they’re optimistic about this crop, especially with the less-than-ideal start to the growing season.  “We had zero rainfall from pretty much June 1^st until July 10th in many areas and that was really tough,” he says. “But one thing I’ve consistently heard, and I agree with many of the farmers, is that for what we were dealt, the crop we are looking at is very impressive with how it handled the growing conditions.”

He says overall, both corn and soybean crops have been healthy, but some farmers did battle phytophthora early on in the growing season, and Sudden Death Syndrome crept in within the last few weeks.