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Early harvest results in parts of Ohio have been better than expected

Harvest is finally picking up pace for farmers across much of Ohio.

Sam Park is a technical agronomist for Channel brand seed. “We’re seeing tremendous yields in some areas,” he says.  “It’s record yields for soybeans and then others, it’s above average. But on the whole, I think folks have been tremendously pleased with their soybean yields and the early planted corn as well.”

He tells Brownfield the timing of moisture was key. “We were dry a little bit early and then we ended up ending the season a little bit dry as well,” he says. “I think planting date and where your what development stages your crop was in when some of these dry periods hit is probably going to impact what we’re seeing at harvest.”

Park says corn and soybeans that were planted later in the spring have been slower to finish up, but he expects harvest to pick up for those crops in the next couple of weeks.