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Minnesota farmer calls the past month a marathon

A crop and livestock farmer in southern Minnesota calls the past month a marathon.

Wanda Patsche and her husband raise corn, soybeans, and hogs in Martin County.

“We started our harvest probably about the last couple days of September, started with harvesting beans. We finished the harvest part on October 17th, then we moved into the second half of harvest, the part where we haul manure and we do tillage.”

She says they’re on the second-to-last field that needs to be tilled and on the last farm for hauling manure.

“So we’re getting very close to the end. The harvest went well, we’ve had no weather break. Which for us as farmers, we kind of actually need that. But it’s just been very, very dry.”

Patsche is pleased with yields and tells Brownfield this year’s corn crop is better than last year, but soybean yields are a little less than a year ago.