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Nebraska farmer finishes harvest early

Dry conditions have sped up harvest for many Nebraska farmers, including Doug Saathoff…

“We finished Friday afternoon. Everything is done. Now the clean up begins.”

He says it’s the earliest he’s finished and is pleased with how his crops turned out.

“Corn was real good, even our dryland was good. Some of it came close to 200 bushels and acre, so real happy with corn and beans are probably average, maybe a fuzz better than average,” he says.

Saathoff tells Brownfield Southern Rust created some challenges in corn, and most of the harvest season was hot, dry and windy.

“Beans got real dry towards the end, around that eight (percent) moisture. I also picked some corn that ended up at 10 and a half moisture. I didn’t know corn could get that dry, but apparently it can,” he says. “I don’t think I picked any corn over 16 moisture.”

Saathoff says he hopes to do some strip tilling this fall but wants to see some more rain first.