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Farmer discusses favorable yields and steady harvest progress

A northwest Ohio farmer says harvest has progressed steadily over the past month.

Ryan Mohr says soybean harvest is complete and corn is about 60 percent harvested.  

“Yields have been way better than expected for everything. Soybeans were hit or miss depending on where we had moisture, but they were still phenomenal,” he says. “Corn was way better than expected. (Corn yields) were 20 to 30 bushels more than we ever thought it would be. That’s been a good problem to have— trying to find a home for it.”  

He tells Brownfield vomitoxin has been an issue in his area this year.

“We can haul two trucks from the same field and one truck will be eight parts per million and the next truck will be zero. So, it’s just trying to find a fine balance. A lot of our elevators are still taking it and the dock isn’t awful so we really can’t complain about a whole lot. There are some neighbors in the area that are having some issues and having upward of 20-25 parts per million.”

They’ve also been able to make progress on other fieldwork.

“Tillage is going well. We’re mainly strip-till and no-till. Strip-till equipment is caught up for the most part. We’re waiting on some fertilizer from the co-op to finish off the last couple of acres and then, on the corn stalk side of things, we’re spreading lime as the wind allows.”

Mohr says he’s hoping for some timely rains.  

“I would like some moisture here at some point. We have a couple hundred acres of cover crops that are waiting for rain. We need to get them germinated and started,” he says. “I also wouldn’t mind the moisture going into winter, and for the last hundred of acres that need to be strip-tilled.”

He says they should wrap up harvest by the end of the month.   

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