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Varying harvest reports across Missouri

Missouri Ag Director Chris Chinn says harvest is picking up steam across the state.

“If you go down to the southwest part of the state, they ended having to chop a lot of their corn for silage,” Chinn said. “There’s a lot of challenges down there for those farmers and ranchers, especially our cattlemen and women. They are short on hay as well.”

She tells Brownfield they are hearing varying reports from the field. “Harvest is going very good on our irrigated acres in the southeast portion of the state,” Chinn said. “We’re also hearing of some harvesting going up in the central portion of the state around the Saline County area as well. We’re hearing that the yields are better than they anticipated.”

Chinn says planting delays in the spring pushed back harvest for some farmers in the northeastern corner.