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Farmers report good looking crops

Many Midwestern farmers are reporting above average crops despite variable weather conditions.

Jim Koester grows corn and soybeans in southwestern Indiana.

“With the soybeans we were a little bit disappointed for a long time. They don’t seem like they have quite the height that they would have on a normal year, but they’re coming around,” he says. “Our corn for the most part looks really good. If nothing happens I think we’re going to be pleasantly surprised.”

Mike Beard grows corn and soybeans in central Indiana.

“The crops look good, and we recently had an inch and a half of rain on the farm,” he says. “I think we’ll have a good corn crop.” 

Cameron Mills grows corn, soybeans, wheat, triticale, and grain sorghum. He says conditions have been “really good actually. We just got done harvesting our triticale Wednesday with the best yield ever—a  really good crop. We got six-tenths of an inch of a rain right after and so we’ve had a great year so far and are off to a good start.”

Brownfield spoke to Koester, Beard, and Mills during the Purdue University Farm Management Tour.