From the Fields: Yields are amazing

Wow, time flies when you're having fun. I hope everyone is running on all cylinders with harvest progress. I apologize for the last several weeks of absence. We just got swamped from all sides delivering wheat seed, treating wheat and barley seed and starting harvest. We also managed to squeeze in sowing around 300 acres of wheat.

We started in on beans a few weeks ago now and had awesome dry weather to run long days and knock out a huge amount of acres on first crop soybeans. We finished up running them with outstanding yields setting many new farm records and setting a new farm average record, as well. We started in on corn — and wow. What yields we are seeing is still amazing to me.

It’s wet and doesn’t seem to be drying much from week to week. Ours started at 23% when we started and we are shelling today and we are still in that 20% to 21% range on May 16 planted corn. It’s going to take us time and we all will have to be patient and keep plugging away this year. I’m afraid we won’t see any taken out of our farm “dry.” We will have to dry everything at home and haul it off as we go along.

Markets keep making me question what I was thinking selling so much early on. I keep telling myself don’t beat yourself up over it. We went off data and info we were getting, so I don’t feel bad selling at a higher price off the combine to help bring that farm average price per bushel up more. It’s great for us to be able to make a little money with good yields this year. I know it’s hard not to have a good time when we are yielding so well and markets keep creeping up in the green. Hope everyone has a bountiful harvest and stays safe throughout this busy time of year.

Hope, Ind.