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Updated: 2:01 PM Nov 14, 2009
Late harvest not just hard on farmers
Farmers say they've had an up and down season this year and the late rains have made for a late harvest, but farmers aren't the only ones looking to get the crops out of the fields as soon as possible. Posted: 8:04 PM Nov 13, 2009Reporter: Chris Baylor Email Address: chris.baylor@weau.com Late harvest not just hard on farmers |
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Farmers say they've had an up and down season this year and the late rains have made for a late harvest, but farmers aren't the only ones looking to get the crops out of the fields as soon as possible.
Meyer Brothers Grain Incorporated says by now they should be finished drying beans and should have a line starting for corn but this year has pushed the schedule back, making it more difficult to serve their customers.
Only a few trucks were rolling through to dump off their corn at Meyer Brothers Grain and people depending on those trucks say it's going to be a scramble to get to the end of the season.
"It's coming in a little late, so eventually it's all going to catch up and come at us all at once, be some long days and night," says Stev Michels.
Stev Michels is the operations manager for the Elk Mound company and he says they're close to three weeks behind schedule do to farmers not being able to get the crops out of the fields.
"Crops suffered, now they can't even get out to get the crops harvested, with all that wet weather you end up with mold on the beans and some on the corn,” says Michels.
He says normally they have about six weeks to get the corn in and dried. He says right now it looks like they'll only have three to four weeks to get the job done.
"Eventually it will get to the point where they have to get it off the field and that's when it will get hectic," says Michels.
Michels says another worry he has is that it's harder and costs more to dry corn as it gets colder out. Farmers tell us despite the weather we've had this year is looking to be an average to above average year.
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Late harvest not just hard on farmers