A lot of corn and soybean farmers got quite a jump start on harvest before cool and wet conditions slowed down combines in mid to late October.
Latham Hi-Tech Seeds president John Latham says across his company’s footprint of Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Wisconsin, soybeans came out in a hurry.
“And most guys are over the hump on corn (but) there’s still some corn out there. We certainly didn’t appreciate the snow that we got in Iowa and Minnesota, but overall I’d say it was a little better harvest than what we thought as far as yields.”
He tells Brownfield drought conditions in Iowa led many to believe the soybean crop would disappoint.
