Harvest looks ‘excellent’
Staff writer
Combines and shipping trucks fired up their engines last week as county farmers harvested this year’s corn crop.
“It’s been a good harvest,” Cooperative Grain and Supply’s local manager, John Ottensmeier, said. “Price is low, but the yields are high.”
The 2023 corn yield in the county was 90.6 bushels per acre, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ottensmeier declined to provide an exact number of bushels per acre yielded this season but said that the quality of the corn was “excellent” and rains this year were “really good.”
As of Tuesday, roughly 65% of county cornfields have been harvested, according to Ottensmeier.
“We’ve been going at it since the last week of August,” he said. “The corn should be done in the next couple weeks. Then we’ll get to the milo and beans, weather permitting.”