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Harvest delays fuel grain quality concerns
Northwestern Indiana farmer Alan Kemper says harvest continues to be delayed because of heavy rainfall and now his soybean crop is suffering.
“We’re estimating our yields are off probably 10 bushels at least across the board from last year and not counting any of the damage factors that could be up to 20 percent damage in the soybeans,” he says.
He tells Brownfield it has been the perfect storm for disease pressure and he has seen frogeye leaf spot and pod and stem blight in his soybeans.
“So the pods aren’t filled and what beans are in there are poor quality,” he says.
Kemper says grain quality concerns couldn’t have come at a worst time for farmers in the corn belt…
“Now you got farmers that not only have the tariff and trade problems and the lower price problems and now you’ve got the yield problems and the delay in harvest problems,” he says.
Kemper says he likely won’t wrap up harvest until mid-November.
I’m Amie Simpson for Brownfield
Audio: Alan Kemper, Indiana farmer
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