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Downed corn causes challenges

A Southern Ohio farmer says they are starting to see the impact of the slow harvest due to this fall’s wet and cold conditions.

Greg Corcoran says they started off the harvest season with record yields, and now they are seeing some downed corn.

“This last bit where we had rain and 40-mile-per-hour wind, it looks like it knocked down a bit of corn,” he says. “It’s going to be tough, but we’re going to try to get up as much as we can. We’re going to lose some yields having it out this late but we’ll see what it ends up being and if it ends up becoming a big dip for us in total acreage.”

He tells Brownfield they have around 400 acres of corn left to harvest and it needs to dry down a little more before they can get back in the fields.

Corcoran says soybean harvest is finished, but yields have varied this year.

“It was a roller coaster for us with soybeans,” he says. “We’d go into one field and see 70 bushels per acre and be really happy and then we’d go into another field and it would drop down to 50 bushels per acre and we would just scratch our head.”

He says they were a little disappointed with soybean yields that averaged around 60 bushels per acre. He says they plan to analyze the data and see where they can make some changes.

Corcoran grows corn, soybeans and popcorn in Ross, Pike, and Scioto counties.

Audio: Greg Corcoran, Ohio farmer

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