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Soybean harvest in the rearview with corn on deck for Nebraska farmer

A South-Central Nebraska farmer says harvest pace is picking up quickly.

Jay Reiners (RYE-ners) tells Brownfield he wrapped up soybeans late last week and is now on corn. “We started yesterday on irrigated. It was 109-day corn, and it was down to 13.8 moisture already. Yields seem to be really, really good on irrigated corn. Dry land corn is anywhere from zero to 25 to 40 probably.”

He says irrigated soybeans performed well and that was partly due to a boost from a five-inch rain late in the growing season. ““It probably helped to irrigated soybean, so we don’t have to water one more time. But as far as the dryland beans, they’ve been dead for two months and I think the only thing it did was kind of made them green back up again.”

Reiners says that rain event tripled the area’s total for the year and was the biggest event in three years.