The growing season has been more fortunate for Greene County area farmers for both corn and soybean this year.

Farmers haven’t been fighting drought-like conditions like they have been the previous two years, but now most crop producers are waiting for the ground to dry out before the bulk of the harvest season can begin.

Southeastern Greene County farmer John Muir says that’s been his biggest challenge stopping him from starting to harvest his crops.

“It was drying out pretty good and then we had that two-two-and-a-half inches (of rain) but I heard guys were getting back out yesterday so it’ll get done.  We have to be a little more careful than most years.”

While farmers may have to wait a little longer to harvest corn, West Central Cooperative Field Agronomist Scott Shannon says soybeans are mostly being harvested right now.  He sees another issue with some of the corn crop and that is rotting stalks due to the over saturation.  Despite that, Shannon points out that both corn and soybeans are an eight out of ten on a scale from one-to-ten with the being the best.

However, Shannon believes that yields will be much better this year than last year.  He predicts soybeans to be between 40-60 bushels and corn will be between 180-215 bushels per acre.

Harvest season might get pushed back to as far as late November this year.