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Lack of rain speeds up Indiana harvest progress

A southeast Indiana farmer says a lack of recent rainfall has helped harvest progress.

Roger Wenning says he started with soybeans a few weeks ago.

“Soybeans are kind of up and down,” he says. “I’ve seen anywhere from 70 to 100. We haven’t started corn, but we have about 100 acres of beans out.”

The USDA says Indiana corn is 95 percent dented, 68 percent mature, 16 percent harvested and rated 57 percent good to excellent. Soybeans are 81 percent dropping leaves, 24 percent harvested and rated 58 percent good to excellent. 

He tells Brownfield, “The way the rain was this year, I could see a difference between one side of the field to the other. We had rains that were that spotty at times. Sometimes they would terrible on one side of the field and not the other.”

Wenning raises corn and soybeans in Decatur County.

AUDIO: Indiana farmer Roger Wenning