Harvest season is starting to wind down in Greene County.

Landus Cooperative Field Agronomist Zach Minnihan says warmer temperatures and no major rain events have kept farmers and crop producers in the fields longer to harvest their crops. He describes a minor issue that crop producers have had to work through during harvest.

“During the mornings, when it’s dewey and humid, we’ve kind of had some humid days this fall and some warmer temperatures, the soybeans will actually pick up moisture and they are really hard to feed into the combine and the (grain) elevator doesn’t take them. So guys have been struggling to get out until they dry down later in the afternoon.”

Despite that issue, Minnihan says yields have been the best he’s ever seen in the county.

“Yields are some of the best I think we’ve ever had. I’ve talked to guys that have never seen 60 bushels (per acre) soybeans and they’ve got 60 (bushels) across their whole farm from fence post to fence post. We’re doing really well on corn. As you get into these later numbers that we’re into now, it seems like the yields keep getting bumped up well over that 215 to 220 (bushels per acre).”    

He adds that as of Friday, soybeans are about 85 to 90 percent harvested and corn is about 75 percent.

He anticipates harvest to be done in Greene County by November 5th.