A farmer in southwest Minnesota attempted to stay in front of a rapidly drying corn crop this fall.

George Goblish of Vesta tells Brownfield he prefers harvesting corn with moisture in the low to mid 20’s.

“Just because those phantom bushels seem to disappear once that crop drops below 20. So we start combining early on the corn, and then our beans got fit so we switched over to beans. And then we finished up with corn last week.”

He says most of that remaining corn had dried below 20 percent.

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