A farmer who raises corn, soybeans, and wheat in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois is focused on harvesting corn for grain now. Mike Berget tells Brownfield, “The overall yield is going to be good, but there’s going to be a real variance in yields, think.”
Mike Berget finished harvesting about 27 hundred acres of soybeans Monday with variable yields based on where the rain fell. “Where they had 65-70 bushels of beans last year, they had 45-50 this year where up our way, the shallow spots hurt but in good dirt, the bean yields weren’t off that much.”
Berget is now focused on the family’s 85 hundred acres of corn scattered across three Wisconsin and three Illinois counties, with some farms dryer than others, and he’s pleased with the first 500 acres on the Darlington, Wisconsin home farm.
