Tag: harvest
Better weather means harvest is rolling
Farmers needed the kind of weather we're having right now, and hopefully it will continue.
Yields are bountiful, but fields still wet
The yields are coming in good for those who have been able to get in the fields.
Slipping into harvest unprepared
Marlin Clark provides a harvest update, reporting the Ohio corn harvest is now officially 2 percent complete as of Sunday night.
Pa. soybean growers top 100 bushels per acre in contest
Charles Farms, from Lancaster County, was the state's top producer in the 2017 Pennsylvania Soybean Yield Contest, with a yield of 107.17 bushels per acre.
Corn growers beware of Fusarium mold
Fluctuating weather has created conditions ideal for growing Fusarium mold, otherwise known as ‘Ear Rot’, which produces Vomitoxin and Zearalenone toxins.
Ask FSA Andy about marketing assistance, facility loan programs
With harvest wrapping up, now is a good time to consider the FSA programs that may make our farm life easier.
Be thankful if your harvest is complete
With more rain than sunshine, this is shaping up to be a difficult end to harvest.
‘Groundhog Day’ weather drags on
October presented many dry days for harvest, but November has caught us by surprise.
Preventing combine fires
Dry corn and soybean fields have put farmers at greater risk of their combines catching on fire while harvesting crops.
