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Wisconsin farmers pleased with corn results

Wisconsin farmers are wrapping up the season with better than expected results.

Tom Gillis raises corn and soybeans in the River Falls area, and finished harvest almost a month ago.  He says that allowed him to also finish fall field work. “We usually strip till and we usually inject dry fertilizer in the strips, but we got that done where we wanted to get that done. We did really well.”

Gillis says he was able to plant around Mother’s Day, and it was a good corn yield. “Everything we own has irrigation, so take that into account. We actually had record yields, the highest we’ve ever had.”

Shane Goplin farms near Osseo and tells Brownfield he finished combining around nineteen hundred acres of corn Wednesday night, so he’s focused on office work, the mail that piled up during harvest, and getting ready for 2024. “Most of the seed is ordered for next year. Fertilizer? Not yet, but some of the chemicals are done.”

Goplin says he’s pleased with yields being slightly above average considering how dry the growing season was. “In August, I was hoping we would have test weights that would start with a five because of all of the lack of rain and if the corn was going to get mature, but the test weights were decent.”

Much of Wisconsin received snow over the weekend, and a central Wisconsin farmer told Brownfield he stopped fall tillage Friday night because the frost was breaking tillage equipment.