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Dry harvest creates challenges
An northeastern Indiana farmer says a dry harvest has created several challenges.
Don Wyss farms in Allen County.
“We don’t have record setting yields in this area, but it’s respectable and that’s quite a surprise considering how dry it’s been,” he says.
According to the latest crop progress and conditions report from the USDA, corn is 77 percent harvested for grain. Soybeans are 87 percent harvested.
Wyss says drought has been a large factor.
“If you look at the latest drought map, you’ll see Northern Ohio, a significant part of Ohio as well as into the northeastern portion of Indiana,” he says. “We are into a serious drought category.”
Winter wheat is rated 67 percent good to excellent, 72 percent planted, and 40 percent emerged. The fourth cutting of alfalfa is 90 percent complete, and the fourth hay cutting is 59 percent complete.
Topsoil moisture is 24 percent adequate to surplus and subsoil moisture is 26 percent adequate to surplus.
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