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Yields better than expected in southeast Minnesota

Harvest is on pause in southeastern Minnesota.

Cannon Falls corn and soybean grower Rob Tate tells Brownfield he’s made a lot of progress this fall.

“We’ve gotten rain here the past couple of days, so everything has kind of come to a halt. We finished up soybeans about a week and-a-half ago (and) bean yields were better than expected.”

He points out expectations were low because the growing season was extremely dry.

“But overall I would say we’re just a little under APH from a yield standpoint. And corn, we’re down to three or four days left of corn harvest and seeing quite a bit of variability in corn yields.”

Tate says he’ll also continue tillage and fall fertilizer applications when conditions allow.