Things have begun drying up in the KKRF listening area, especially in crop fields.

Iowa State University Extension and Outreach Field Agronomist Mike Witt says that many farmers in Guthrie County have already begun to harvest their corn and soybeans. For those that haven’t started yet, and those that didn’t do so, he gives some safety tips to help make harvest run more smoothly.

“Pull the combines out of the shed, go through a full maintenance check on all of the different pieces of equipment that go on with that. Even if it worked when you parked it, sometimes things seize up, or sometimes things don’t work as well as we get out this year. Then replace what you need to, and be ready to go. The second big thing that people really need to do is if you have monitors, both moisture monitors and yield monitors and things like that, make sure you go out and get those calibrated.”

Witt mentions that the calibration for those monitors may take some time, but is also important to making sure operations run smoothly. He adds that doing these things can help farmers save money.