While parts of Greene County has seen harvest season in full affect, other parts are still holding out for last minute yields.

Jefferson’s West Central Cooperative Field Agronomist Scott Shannon says yields are all over the board throughout the county.  Corn yields are anywhere from 100-180 bushels per acre while soybeans are from 20-50 bushels.

He explains that weather-related events have caused a wide-range of yields in the county.

“If you’re lucky enough to catch a (rain) shower at some point in time, it made a huge difference this year.  And then the early season too with all the rain, the areas that caught more rain early and had way too much that was detrimental to the yields as well.  And then planting dates.  The stuff that got in before that early snow looks a lot better than afterwards.”

Shannon states that farmers typically like to get their soybeans harvested first.

“Guys like to get their soybeans out of the way first.  They’re going to mature a little bit faster than corn typically.  That’s fairly typically that we’ll see a good chunk of the (soy)beans come out before the corn.”

He notes that the southwest part of the county will be one of the last to harvest because of the very late planting season compared to the rest of the county.