Harvest season is well underway across the state.

As for Greene County, West Central Cooperative Field Agronomist Scott Shannon says about 60-70% of soybeans and about 30-35% of corn has been harvested.  He comments that corn is a little wetter than normal and so farmers are waiting longer than usual before they harvest a majority of their fields.

Shannon states that soybean yields are between 30-40 bushels per acre whereas corn is starting to come as much as 160 bushels per acre.

He explains how the colder temperatures affect crops during the harvest season.

“Cold weathers alone won’t make a lot of difference.  It’ll help make sure to bring the crop along and kill any of the remaining plant tissue.  But really, the big struggle with that starts to get into is there is a lot of fall tillage and fall anhydrous that needs to get put on.  If we have ground freeze early than that can really hinder some of that progress.”

A soft frost has already been experienced in the county with a temperatures to dip down around the freezing mark in the overnights, that could push back some post-harvest work.

Shannon believes that it’ll be about another month before all harvesting is completed in the county