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Harvest is off to a slow start

A Channel seedsman says harvest in parts of Indiana is off to a much slower start than normal.

Elizabeth Pfaff says combines are just starting to roll, and variability is the name of the game for this year’s crop.  “It just depends on where you’re at when those rains came through,” she says.  “We have been dry, extremely, extremely dry.”

She tells Brownfield when it comes to quality and yields, she expects a little bit of everything.  “There’s going to be some good and there’s going to be some bad,” she says. “There’s going to be a pretty respectful crop, I think. But there’s also going to be some ugly pieces. It just kind of depends on where you’re at and you know, and some management practices and how the weather fell.”

Pfaff says east central Indiana received some much-needed rain this week and she anticipates harvest pace picking up next week. 

According to the latest Weekly Crop Progress and Conditions report from the UDSA both corn and soybean harvest was around 7 percent complete, slightly behind year-ago levels.

AUDIO: Elizabeth Pfaff, Channel Seed brand