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A dry, early, and likely profitable harvest

A dry harvest is helping keep one Michigan farmer get closer to breakeven.

Scott Wilson tells Brownfield it’s pretty rare when corn goes directly from the combine to the bin on his Sanilac County farm.

“From a corn standpoint, I think that the drying charges are huge—I think we’re going to be a lot closer to a break-even or maybe even a little bit of profit than we were thinking we’re going to be heading into the fall, just how things dried out,” he shares.

Wilson says this year might have been the first time in about 30 years of farming he finished harvest before the end of October.

“Compared to last year, it was a dream come true—we had hardly any delays once we started,” he explains.

He says the dry conditions did cause some header loss with the combine, but wet fields last fall made winter wheat planting impossible. At this point, Wilson says wheat emergence looks great and the farm is winding down for winter.