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Michigan corn silage better than expected

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A Michigan farmer says corn silage harvest is better than he anticipated with the challenging growing season.

Ken Blight farms in Calhoun County in southern Michigan. He tells Brownfield corn silage harvest started Monday.  “I’d say there’s some bug damage it looks like from the cutworm, we had to do some scouting.”  He says, “We’re kind of chopping those fields off because of some damage in those fields, it’s kind of hit and miss.”

Blight says some fields have 50 to 60 percent damage because of insect pressure, but it could have been worse.  “I think our yields are going to be close to average which is astounding to me as hot and dry as it was early in the season, that we could achieve the ears that we have—it’s pretty amazing.”

Blight says the silage crop is harvesting right at 38 percent moisture and harvest should be completed by the end of this week. He expects soybean harvest in early planted fields may start by the beginning of next week if the weather continues to stay hot and dry.

AUDIO: Interview with Ken Blight

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