Third generation farmer Bret Vandeveer of Salem, Illinois says with prices and yields up, he can’t complain about harvest so far this year.

Brownfield’s Rhiannon Branch joined him in the combine Thursday for his second day of soybean harvest.

“This is probably one of the better fields we have been in. Moisture is running down there well below average with a few green stems still. The yields on this field are running anywhere from 55-60 and we started out in the 40’s so it keeps getting better.”

He says they got about half of their 2500 acres of corn harvested last week before starting on beans.

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