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Harvest has begun in Indiana

A southeastern Indiana farmer says harvest has started near Evansville.

Ben Kron says he tested the waters over the weekend.

“We’ve got a little bit done in the fields,” he says. “We went ahead and got some of the bugs worked out that we had here and there and going out at full on today.”

According to the latest crop progress and conditions report from the USDA, corn is rated ​68 percent good to excellent with ​96 percent in the dough stage, 79 percent dented, and 25 percent mature. Soybeans are ​rated ​68 percent good to excellent, with 97 percent setting pods and one percent harvested.

He tells Brownfield harvest is starting to pick up in his area.

“Everything seems to be going pretty well,” he says. “Corn is drying down some. We’re getting down in about 20% area in moisture,. Some guys are higher, some lower just kind of depending on plant date.”

The third cutting of alfalfa is 93​ percent complete, and the third hay cutting is ​64 percent complete.

Topsoil moisture is 37 ​percent adequate to surplus and subsoil moisture is ​40 percent adequate to surplus.