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Nebraska farmer who faced replanting expecting average yields

An Eastern Nebraska farmer says he’s expecting average yields for corn and soybeans.

Quentin Connealy, who farms near Tekamah, tells Brownfield…

“It kind of depends on the ground. Some of it got hurt in this little dry spell, but the good ground held it’s ground, and we’re looking at some pretty good yields coming off the good dryland so far, and a little bit of irrigated that we’ve done,” he says.

He says the wet spring forced him to replant, which also has created challenges for cutting.

“We’re kind of having to go around little bean patches that aren’t mature yet, while the rest of the field is dried down to 8, 9% beans. So far, the material on the beans has just been super tough. The corn field I’m in now is growing about 12% dryland, and then you hit a replant patch, and it jumps up to about 25%,” he says.

Connealy says he received 25 inches of rain but has been mostly dry since early July.

He says he’s harvested about 20% of his crops.